Editing Ho-Chunk mythology (section)

==Migration myth==
In the story that follows, the Bear Clan assumes the foundation role for the whole nation, and when they land they find the nation's friendship tribe, the [[Menominee]]. The Bear Clan is strongly associated with the ''kaǧi'', a term that denotes the raven and northern crow. It is also the name by which the Hocągara know the Menominee.

On account of his vision, a great [[Menominee]] (''Kaǧi'') chief commanded that all manner of supplies be assembled at a white sand beach on [[Lake Michigan]]. And when all this had been done and set in order, as the sun reached its zenith the vision came to life: in the pure blue sky of the eastern horizon a single dark cloud began to form and move irresistibly towards them. It was a great flock of [[raven]]s (''kaǧi''), spirit birds with rainbow plumage of iridescent colors. The instant that the first of these landed, he materialized into a naked, kneeling man. The Menominee chief said to his people, "Give this man clothing, for he is a chief." And the others landed in like fashion, and were given great hospitality. They were the Hocąk nation, and that is how they came to Red Banks.<ref name=walter>Walter Funmaker, The Winnebago Black Bear Subclan: a Defended Culture (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota: December, 1986 [[MnU-D 86-361]]) 6-7. Informant: One Who Wins of the Winnebago Bear Clan. This telling of the story reproduced by consent of the author, Richard Dieterle, 10/8/08. For this story in context, see Richard Dieterle,  [http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.HotcankArrivalMyth.html  "Hotcâk Arrival Myth"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030040305/http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.HotcankArrivalMyth.html |date=2008-10-30 }}.</ref>

Red Banks (Wisconsin) is the traditional homeland of the Hocąk Nation. It is situated on [[Green Bay (Lake Michigan)|Green Bay]], which the Hocągara called ''Te-rok'', the "Within Lake".<ref>Untitled Clan Myths (Hotcâk-English Interlinear) in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notes, Winnebago V, #8, Freeman #3881 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1908) 23-28. "Deer Clan Origin Myth," in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks, Winnebago III, #19a, Freeman number 3899 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) 1-13.</ref> Lake Michigan as a whole was called ''Te-šišik'', "Bad Lake",<ref>Thomas J. George, Winnebago Vocabulary, 4989 Winnebago (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, 1885) ''s.v''. Informants: Big Bear of Friendship, Wisconsin, and Big Thunder. Norton William Jipson, Story of the Winnebagoes (Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1923) ''s.v''.</ref> which may well have led the Algonquian peoples round about Lake Winnebago to call them "the people of the Bad Waters", or ''Winnibégo'' in Menominee.