Message-ID: <SNT104-W518926F0E8F15ACDF5C1E7A1930@phx.gbl> From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com> Subject: Indian Agency House BREAKING NEWS! Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:24:52 -0500
Award-winning Author Robert Birmingham
Third Speaker in Agency House Ho-Chunk Summer Series
The Historic Indian Agency House continues its popular 4-part speaker serie
s exploring Ho-Chunk history and culture. The series, entitled “Their S
ide of the Story”: The Ho-Chunk at the Portage, consists of one lecture
a month, with only August and September’s installments remaining. Eac
h lecture, held on the last Tuesday of the month, focuses on a differen
t aspect of the Ho-Chunk experience in the Portage area.
The third installment of the series will take place on Tuesday, August 31
at 6:30PM. At this time, UW-Waukesha Professor Robert Birmingham will pr
esent “Ancient Native Cultures of the Wisconsin River Region.” This il
lustrated presentation will cover 11,000 years of Native American occupat
ion of the Columbia County area, highlighting unique archaeological sites
. A former longtime State Archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Soci
ety, Professor Birmingham is also the co-author of the award-winning book
s Indian Mounds of Wisconsin and Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian To
wn. His newest publication is Spirits of the Earth: The Effigy Mound Lands
cape of Madison and the Four Lakes. Copies of his works will be available
for purchase the evening of the lecture. Maybe he’ll even sign one for yo
u—who knows!
The museum and visitor’s center exhibits, always free to the public,
will be open 5PM until the lecture begins, and a guided tour of the Histo
ric Indian Agency House itself will also be offered immediately prior to th
e lecture, at 5:30PM, for a minimal fee. Light refreshments will be pro
vided for lecture guests.
Not unlike June’s speaker, July’s William Quackenbush, Ho-Chunk Tri
bal Historic Preservation Officer, was immensely successful! Mr. Quackenb
ush presented a tribal-centered view of Ho-Chunk history, from the near-u
topia of pre-contact to the swift transformation brought about by 18th and
19th century European encroachment. In addition, an explanation of the H
o-Chunk tribal government structure was extremely enlightening. Once again
, the lecture drew a full house of over sixty attendees.
Each installment of this educational series is free to the public and only
possible because of a generous grant from the Great Circle Foundation, In
c. of East Northport, New York. For further information on this and other
Agency House programming, call Director Destinee Udelhoven at (608) 742-
6362.
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Destinee K. Udelhoven
Executive Director
Historic Indian Agency House
Portage, Wisconsin
(608) 742 - 6362
"History supplies little beyond a list of those
who have accommodated themselves
with the property of others." ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary