Hisgexjį Horak

05/27/2026

✨ HISGEXJĮ HORAK WAFFLE ✨

Support future community events and cultural programming while entering for a chance to win these beautiful handmade creations! 💙

🥇 FIRST PRIZE
•A blue cotton hinųk waje by Gišinįšinįxjį Creations (L–XXL)
•Cowrie shell & bone bead necklace and silver Canadian dime earrings by Mą̄xipį̄

🥈 SECOND PRIZE
Matching blue cotton ribbon skirt set by Mą̄xipį̄ for Nanį/Cuwį/Nųnų/Gaga and daughter/niece/sister/granddaughter.
•Adult size S–XXL
•Child size S–M

🎟️ Waffle spots:
• $10 = 1 chance
• $20 = 3 chances

Cash App: $maxipiwiga
Venmo: maxipiwiga
PayPal: [email protected]
(Please use Friends & Family and include your name in the note)

📅 Drawing held live using wheel of names on June 12, 2026 at 7 PM CDT

All proceeds help support future Hisgexjį Horak events, cultural education, and community programming. 🪶💫

Entries 🎟️:

Michelle L.
Michelle L.
Michelle L.
Melissa M.
Melissa M.
Melissa M.
Qiara B.
Qiara B.
Qiara B.
Cynthia C.
Cynthia C.
Cynthia C.
Stacia P.
Stacia P.
Stacia P.
Savannah A.
Savannah A.
Savannah A.
Angelique O.
Angelique O.
Angelique O.

05/25/2026

For generations, the Ho-Chunk have answered the call to protect and serve.
Today we honor our veterans, remember our fallen warriors, and carry their legacy with pride.

Wishing you all a safe and meaningful Memorial Day. 🪶🙏🏽✨

05/14/2026

A big win for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and Tribal sovereignty!

Today, the Fourth Circuit confirmed Winnebago’s right under NAGPRA to seek the return of its children buried at the Carlisle Indian School Cemetery, saying “At the end of the day, the U.S. government kept and buried the remains of two Native American schoolchildren, Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley, without their families’ or tribe’s consent after forcing them from their homes and after they died in the government’s care. Nearly a century later, Congress passed a statute that, by its terms, entitles their tribe finally to bring their remains home and to bury them according to their tribal and religious traditions."

05/14/2026

05/14/2026

To the cycle breakers, the ones learning the language, returning to ceremony, reconnecting with the land, healing family wounds, setting boundaries, choosing softness, relearning traditional foods, songs, and crafts after generations of disconnection… I hope you know how sacred your journey is.

Every time you choose healing over harm, community over competition, culture over shame, and love over survival mode, you honor the ancestors who dreamed of you and prayed for you.

You are not “starting over.” You are remembering what was always yours. 🤍

05/13/2026

400 followers. 🖤

Thank you all for supporting Hisgexjį Horak. What started as a small grassroots effort run by two Indigenous women has continued to grow because of community support, encouragement, and people believing in the importance of this work. We may be small, but we pour our hearts into every event, post, educational resource, and gathering we create.

We’re doing our best to uplift Indigenous history, culture, community, and truth-telling in a good way, and it means so much seeing others connect with that vision. Thank you for walking alongside us on this journey.

Be on the lookout for more events, collaborations, markets, and educational content coming this summer. We’re just getting started. ✨

05/13/2026

Winnebago Two-Spirit is fundraising for an exploratory trip to the Wisconsin Two-Spirit Powwow on June 13, 2026. Spots are $20 each, and four winners will receive $250.

This trip is an opportunity to gather ideas, build connections, and learn from other Indigenous Two-Spirit communities as they work toward bringing a Two-Spirit Powwow to our own community in the future. 🌈✨

Venmo: Emmy-Scott-2
Cash App: $spochunk
PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/EmmyNawjoopinga

Winnebago Two-Spirit is fundraising for an exploratory trip to the Wisconsin Two-Spirit Powwow on June 13, 2026. Spots are $20 each, and four people will win $250. We hope to get ideas & build connections in order to have our own powwow soon. Thanks for the support!

Venmo: Emmy-Scott-2
Cashapp: $spochunk
PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/EmmyNawjoopinga

05/13/2026

We're proud to walk alongside our relatives at Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition in the Cinco de Mayo parade this Saturday to raise awareness for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). ❤️🖤💛🤍

Together, we are showing up in community to honor the voices, families, and loved ones impacted by this ongoing crisis while bringing visibility, unity, and healing through culture and connection.

We invite YOU to walk with us in this parade. Bring your friends, ribbons, and good energy as we stand together for awareness and change. Together we say NO MORE!

Send us a message or comment below if you'd like to join us.

05/05/2026

May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Relatives. ❤️🖤
This is not just a statistic.

These are our relatives. Our mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, and two-spirit kin.

Indigenous women face violence at disproportionate rates, yet their stories are often underreported, misclassified, or ignored. The lack of data, media coverage, and accountability continues to put our communities at risk.

We remember them.
We speak their names.
We demand justice.

Raising awareness is part of protecting our people. Continue to educate yourself, share this information, and stand with Indigenous communities.

To learn more, please visit: https://www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness

12/30/2025

This powerful piece calls us to look honestly at how colonization reshaped gender roles in our communities and how those impacts are still felt today. It reminds us that patriarchy is not traditional Ho-Chunk culture, and that our ancestors lived in systems rooted in balance, responsibility, and women-centered leadership.

Ho-Chunk women have always carried knowledge, kinship, ceremony, and continuity. Restoring our voices is not “new” or “radical”. It is remembering who we are.

🧡 Read the full blog here:

Before colonization, Ho-Chunk life was rooted in balance and shared responsibility, with women at the center of family and community. Patriarchy was imposed, not traditional. Today, restoring women’s voices is part of decolonization — not rewriting our ways, but returning to them.