Spring 2027

Beginner Level Hoocak/ho-chunk Language II

Beginner Level Hoocak/Ho-Chunk Language II develops literacy, grammar, vocabulary, and basic conversational skills in a Wisconsin Indigenous Souian language.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Chloris Lowe

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Speak fluidly about general statements and questions introduced in Hoocak 1

  • Discuss the locations of objects, use object orientation positional

  • Identify and construct verb modifiers that demonstrate how an action is being done.

  • Construct increasingly complex sentences with time-subject-object-verb grammar structures

  • Expand vocabulary of everday objects.

  • Expand vocabulary of verbs.

  • Negate sentences with accuracy

  • Implement proper use of wa‘u and correct positionals

  • Formulate and use inflection for actor/undergoer including in inclusive and dual forms

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AMER IND 308

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CHLORIS LOWE is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

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Learn the sounds and writing system of the language and examine the associated grammar and vocabulary. Develop literacy and an understanding of the unique sentence and verb structures, and utilize basic introductory conversational skills currently being used among Hoocak speakers. Hoocak (Ho-Chunk, formerly referred to as the Wisconsin Winnebago) is one of the five Indigenous aboriginal languages spoken in the state of Wisconsin and part of a larger Souian language family found only in North America.

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Topics

  • Hoocak phonology, orthography, grammar, and vocabulary.
  • Historical and linguistic context of Hoocak within Wisconsin and the Souian family.

Skills

  • Reading and writing Hoocak, constructing sentences with time-subject-object-verb structures, using verb modifiers, and applying actor/undergoer inflection.

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AMERIND 309 · Spring 2027

Beginner Level Hoocak/Ho-Chunk Language II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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