Lewis St. Cyr
Program Director

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 10 years
  • Goals for company: Provide language resources to Tribal membership and all Hōcąk people.

Kathy LaRose
Language Instructor

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 5 years
  • Goals for company: Become more fluent in Hōcąk.

Semia Snowball
Assessment Coordinator

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  • Hometown: Wisconsin Dells, WI
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 3 years
  • Goals for company: Department to grow in numbers. This way we will have more learning taking place which in turn means more outreach in our community. If we are all learning, we can share our knowledge and teachings, strengthening our community.

Pernell Blackfish, Jr.
Language Apprentice

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Fish
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 2 years
  • Goals for company: One of my goals is to be fluent, so I could pass the language onto the next generation.

Corrine Gilpin
Language Instructor

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Eagle
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 6 years
  • Goals for company: Having more fluent speakers and teachers.

Craig “Tunny” Cleveland Jr.
Language Instructor

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Buffalo
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 year
  • Goals for company: To become fluent and teach others to become fluent.

Mary Merrick
Language Instructor

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Thunder
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 21 years
  • Goals for company: To help all the students that I teach learn as much as possible with the short time I have with them.

Elaine Rice-Decorah
Curriculum Coordinator

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  • Hometown: Sioux City, IA
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 19 years
  • Goals for company: More immersion opportunities for the staff.

Michelle Lamere
Project Development Specialist

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Wolf
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 3 years
  • Goals for company: Expand staff to effectively meet all the needs of the community.

Maria Scott
Administrative Assistant

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE and Eufaula, OK
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 19 years
  • Goals for company: Be better organized.

Caprice Snow
Instruction Coordinator

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Buffalo
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 year
  • Goals for company: More opportunities for community members to learn Hōcąk.

Savannah Anderson
Media & Design Specialist

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  • Hometown: Walthill, NE
  • Clan: Eagle
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 year
  • Goals for company: To implement creative design solutions to enhance the expression of the value and marketing of the program’s products and services.

John Rave
Language Apprentice

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  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 year
  • Goals for company: Revitalize the language (fluency) to go further than the Winnebago boundaries. Instill Hōcąk woska ra (The Hōcąk ways).

Herman Brown Jr.
Eminent Speaker

  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 7 years
  • Goals for company: Revitalize the Hōcąk language for all tribal membership.

Darian Rave
Language Apprentice

  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Bear
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 month
  • Goals for company: My goal is to be fluent and a teacher/instructor of the Hōcąk language.

Summer Snow
Language Apprentice

  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Water Spirit
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 month
  • Goals for company: Being the change I want to see in my community by learning and revitalizing the Hōcąk language.

Emily Smith
Community Outreach Coordinator

  • Hometown: Winnebago, NE
  • Clan: Thunder
  • How long with HoChunk Renaissance: 1 month
  • Goals for company: I would like to incorporate more language into the public signs, posters and other advertising around the community. I would like to be able to have more historical awareness of our Tribe’s journey from Wisconsin to our home in Nebraska.