Tana Elias and Neeyati Shah write: “Madison, Wisconsin, is on land that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk people. The tribe was forced to cede its territory in 1832, and in the decades that followed, state and federal governments violently removed the Ho-Chunk people from their lands in Wisconsin. Today, the rich history and ongoing traditions of the Ho-Chunk Nation in Madison are often overlooked. To promote intercultural understanding, Madison Public Library introduced a three-month Native storyteller-in-residence program. The first installment, “Ho-Chunk through Story: The Origin, the Wayz, and the Life,” debuted last fall.