Posted on 03/11/2016 9:21:00 AM PST by rellimpank
A group of people in a UW-Madison dorm room shouted stereotypical “war cry sounds” at a Ho-Chunk elder who had come to the campus for a healing ceremony Wednesday night, according to witnesses and university officials.
UW-Madison has launched an investigation into the incident, which happened during a ceremony at the Dejope residence hall recognizing Native American victims of sexual assault, spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said.
The Ho-Chunk elder had been singing traditional songs as part of the ceremony, which was held at an outdoor fire pit, when attendees said multiple people in a dorm room above them began shouting out of a window, drowning him out.
Emily Nelis, a junior and member of the Native American student organization Wunk Sheek, described the noises as “really stereotypical, like you (hear) when they try to portray Natives in the old western movies.”
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How does Emily Nelis know those aren’t genuine chants from a different tribe?
Yeah, all the ones in the movies were Italians..........................
Honestly, when I read the headline I thought that a Ho-Chunk was ghetto slang for a heavy black woman.
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A traditional Ho-Chunk ritual, was it?
According to Wikipedia, the Ho-Chunk are what we used to call the Winnebago tribe. In my opinion, Winnebago (despite the RV connection) still sounds more dignified.
—I belive they used to be Winnebago—
Wasn’t Ho-chunk the villain on Hawaii five-O?
Hehe....then they did a ceremony to mark the right of war chiefs to use the wrong teepee.
Why do they get to practice their religion in public? When do we get to celebrate Christian martyrs?
Perhaps these students self-identified as Native Americans, and, shackled as they were by an education system that failed to teach them their true Ho-Chunk heritage, they participated in the only way they were able - limited as it was.
... Native American students at UW-Madison, who number in the dozens on the campus of nearly 30,000 undergraduates. ...
What do you bet that every single one of the "dozens" self-identifies as a "victim of sexual assault."
If she's into High Fashion, then she is "Wunk Sheek".
Emily Nelis, a junior and member of the Native American student organization Wunk Sheek,
“I thought that a Ho-Chunk was ghetto slang for a heavy black woman.”
It threw me too! First thing I thought of was this:
There was funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up
They were chopping them down
It’s an ancient Chinese art
And everybody knew their part
From a fainting, to a slip
And a kickin’ from the hip
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
Ho-Chunk was fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit fright’ning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billie Chin and little Sammy Chong
He said, here comes the big boss, let’s get it on ...
Not Chow Yun Fat?
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