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Heritage Preservation

 

HO-CHUNK NATION DEPARTMENT OF HERITAGE PRESERVATION
 
The Mission of the Department of Heritage Preservation shall be to research, archive, protect, conserve, and perpetuate the traditional and natural resources of the Ho-Chunk Nation. The Department will draft policies for the proper use of the Nation’s resources in a manner which is consistent with Ho-Chunk cultural beliefs about nature and with natural resource environmental science. The Department will strive to provide equitable access to the Nation’s traditional and natural resources to all Ho-Chunk citizens, and to work to ensure the future generations of Ho-Chunk citizens have a clean and healthy environment in which traditional customs and activities are perpetuated.

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Tribal Office Building
W9814 Airport Rd.
P.O. Box 667
Black River Falls, WI 54615

Phone (800) 294-9343 x1022
Fax (715) 284-7449
Archives-Enrollments
Division		 Cultural Resources
Division		 Natural Resources
Division
 
-Maintains Enrollment Office,
-Register and inventory
-Store and Maintain
-Track off-site storage and displays of significant media
-Family & Historical Research
-Acquire Historic Archives
-Compile chronologies, documents, books, reports, and other significant history media
      
-Preserve, protect and nurture the cultural religious and historic resources of the Nation
-Archaeology Office
-Tribal Museum
-Repatriation Office
-Cultural Resources
-Resource Council
    
-Manage land, air, water
-Monitor and control toxins, wastes, and pollutants
-Protect and manage wildlife, fish, & plants
-Land acquisitions
-Research, analysis, recording & maintenance of Tribal lands
-DNR Geographic Information Systems [GIS]
-Forestry, Parks, Agriculture
-Bison/Muscoda Project