Ho-Chunk Chiefs

Ho-Chunk Chiefs: Winnebago Leadership in an Era of Crisis is Mark Diedrich's tenth book on American Indians of the upper Midwest region of the United States. It is a collective biography of the most famous leaders of the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago tribe from the 1700s through the late 1800s. Included in this work are essays on the Carmanis, the Decoras, the Winnebago Prophet, Red Bird, Dandy, Yellow Thunder, Winneshiek, Little Priest and Little Hill. This is the first comprehensive historical work on these chiefs and leaders, who once lived and owned southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and were later moved to Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska.