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3 unusual facts about Winnebago


U.S. Route 73

Nebraska also had a split highway, with the split between Tekamah and Winnebago between 1935 and 1957.

Winnebago Mental Health Institute

Winnebago Mental Health Institute (WMHI), formerly the Winnebago State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States located in the unincorporated community of Winnebago, Wisconsin.

Winnebago, Minnesota

Winnebago is located in Minnesota State Senate District 24, represented by Julie Rosen, and Minnesota House District 24A, represented by Bob Gunther.


Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

It's based on a film that director Tony Malanowski had collaborated with "star" Steve "The Sandman" Sankuhler, known as Night of Horror. The former was also about dead Confederate soldiers tormenting a bunch of dirty hippies in a Winnebago.

Forever Fabulous

With further encouragement from her longtime boyfriend Lyle, Loreli agrees to the trip, and they all pack up in Lyle's Winnebago and hit the road.

Gerrit Graham

He is an avid Winnebago enthusiast, and spent many hours "'bago-izing" while not on set.

Glossary of North American railway terms

Winnebago: Nickname for Metra's fleet of EMD F40PHM-2 locomotives, in reference to that model's resemblance to the popular recreational vehicle.

James Young Deer

Although he was identified in the early Hollywood trade paper Moving Picture World as Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), his ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware.

Joseph Crétin

For over eleven years, he exercised his priestly ministry in these new, unopened regions, dividing his time chiefly between Dubuque, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and the Winnebago Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Atkinson, in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

Koshkonong, Wisconsin

The Sac, Fox, Potawatomi, and Winnebago tribes had members in the area when settlers arrived.

Ledger art

Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo/Winnebago) is a female ledger artist who uses bright colors and female figures frequently in her work.

Mary Cecilia Bailly

This homestead was much traveled by various Native American tribes, including the Menominee, Winnebago, Fox and Dakota Sioux.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

Lurie’s research specialties are ethnohistory, action anthropology and museology; her areal focus is on North American Indians, especially the Ho-Chunk (aka Winnebago) and the Dogrib (Taicho) of the Canadian NWT; and the comparative study of territorial minorities.

Robert W. Patten

He claimed that he was born in 1811, ran away from home at age nine, was adopted by Winnebago Chief Big John and romanced the chief's daughter.

University of Sioux Falls

Between 1929 and 1931, Sioux Falls College acquired four Baptist schools that had ceased to operate: Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa; Grand Island College, Grand Island, Nebraska; Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa; and Parker College, Winnebago, Minnesota.

William Abbe

Abbe also held the government contracts for the delivery of meat and provisions to the Winnebago Agency at Fort Atkinson and to the troops at Prairie du Chien in Wisconsin.

William Brown House

William Brown Building, Rockford, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Winnebago County, Illinois

William Joseph Snelling

For example, he helped negotiate the resolution of hostilities between the Dakota and the Chippewa and Winnebago tribes.

Winnebago Man

A sixty-minute version of Winnebago Man was aired in the UK on BBC Four on August 30, 2010 as part of the Storyville series of documentaries.

Winnebago Man is a 2009 American documentary feature film directed by Ben Steinbauer that follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from the salesperson, Jack Rebney.


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