L. Kent Wolgamott: Henry Payer translates Ho-Chunk culture via contempory art at Great Plains museum
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A dignified Native man with his hand slipped inside a 19th century Army tunic gazes out from the glass on which he is painted. He is “Le Interpreteur” — Alexander Payer, a 19th-century Ho-Chunk leader who became an interpreter when…