(Dec. 4, 2006) – Heron Hargreaves, a student at St. Augustine Indian Mission, Winnebago, Neb., won grand prize in the 2006 Holiday Card Design Contest sponsored by the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center. The award was announced Sunday, Dec. 3 at the Center’s annual holiday open house.

  Heron’s picture depicts a scene of traditional life with a Ho-Chunk style home known as a cipodoke. Heron is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Tribe at Winnebago and a member of the Water Spirit Clan. The design inspired the Center’s official 2006 holiday card which was unveiled at the Sunday awards ceremony. The card is now on sale at the Center’s bookstore.

  “I wanted to show something about the Ho-Chunk people in my picture – the kind of house they lived in. There’s corn and trees with hills in the background,” said Heron, an eighth grader at St. Augustine Indian Mission located on the Winnebago Reservation in Northeast Nebraska.

Heron Hargreaves, and eighth grader at St. Augustine Indian Mission, Winnebago, Neb., created this picture of traditional home life with a Ho-Chunk dwelling known as a cipodoke. The picture was selected as the grand-prize winner in the Center’s 2006 Holiday Card Contest.

  The contest was judged by G.R. Lindblade & Co., of Sioux City. Prizes for all winners included uncirculated Sacagawea gold dollars and related books and educational materials. Other winning designs were created by students from: Akron-Westfield Elementary, Akron, Iowa; Danbury Catholic School, Danbury, Iowa; Irving School, Sioux City; Riverside School, Sioux City; and St. Augustine.

  Students focused on holiday traditions and celebrations from all cultures within this year’s contest theme of Siouxland’s farm and livestock marketing heritage. The theme was inspired by the book “A Way of Life: A Story of the Sioux City Stockyards, Vol. I,” published this year by the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center Association.

  Students created art based on rural life and other aspects of Siouxland as a provider of food in the past, present and future, including livestock and crops; traditional Native gardening; and the role of trucking and railroads in agriculture.

  The Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, exit 149 off I-29, is a private, non-profit institution built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). Admission, all programs, exhibits, activities and materials are free. For more information, contact 224-5242 or www.siouxcitylcic.com.

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