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Abstract: Around 1830, a Ho-Chunk village known as Ke-Chunk (“Turtle”) existed near the Rock River, close to the Illinois-Wisconsin border in what is now Beloit, WI or South Beloit, IL. Ke-Chunk was one of the major villages of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people. US Indian agent John Kinzie recorded 35 lodges with nearly 700 inhabitants. Dr. Green will discuss the significance of this site prior to and during the Black Hawk War and will describe his search for physical remnants of the village.

Bio: William Green grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and earned his MA and PhD degrees in anthropology at UW-Madison. He worked as an archaeologist at Western Illinois University and the Wisconsin Historical Society in the 1970s and 80s, and then served as the State Archaeologist of Iowa for 13 years. His field work includes projects in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, England, Mexico, and Israel. He recently retired from Beloit College after more than 17 years as director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology and faculty member in Anthropology and Museum Studies.