Susan Applegate Krouse Receives Center for Great Lakes Culture MSU Fellowship

Susan Applegate Krouse, assistant curator for Great Lakes Ethnology at the MSU Museum and assistant professor of anthropology, has been awarded a 2002 fellowship from the Center for Great Lakes Culture at Michigan State University. Krouse's work with the fellowship will focus on documenting a Native American flag raising ceremony in Wisconsin. In 2001, Krouse, Oklahoma Cherokee, began a collaborative project with photographer Tom Jones, Ho Chunk, to document Ho Chunk (also known as Winnebago) warriors from the nation at Black River Falls, Wisc. This summer, they will expand this collaboration, with support from a fellowship through the Center for Great Lakes Culture. They will document the Ho Chunk Memorial Day Powwow, where families of Ho Chunk veterans gather to honor their warriors with a flag raising ceremony. Krouse will conduct ethnographic interviews with the families of Ho Chunk veterans, while Jones will photograph the flags and the memorials created at the flagpoles by the families. The Center for Great Lakes Culture, in the College of Arts and Letters at MSU, promotes the understanding of the history, people, traditions and customs of the Great Lakes region.