Prosper Waukon

Enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

Prosper Waukon is an accomplished businessman, youth development specialist, and organizational strategist who comes from a long line of Hocak hereditary leaders from the Thunderbird Clan.

As a single father, he supported his family and put himself through college while working three jobs and graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

He was hired by Honeywell, Inc., and with his considerable management and negotiating skills, he rose quickly through the ranks to assume the role of principal advisor/negotiator for Honeywell in a Black Hills land dispute between the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, Honeywell, and the state of South Dakota. Prosper was successful in negotiating a win-win situation for all parties concerned. He later returned to the University of St. Thomas to work on his MBA graduate studies.

After Honeywell, Prosper ran his own award-winning business in some of the most economically deprived and troubled neighborhoods of the inner city, where he trained and employed the hardest-to-hire neighborhood residents and gang members.

Prosper’s return to live on the reservation with the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska where he grew up connected him more deeply with his tribe’s traditional knowledge and values—and with his life’s calling: to bring forward the indigenous perspectives of our multi-dimensional universe. Prosper serves as a guide through intersections of modern times and past generations, the empirical and the intuitive worlds, the seen and unseen worlds, and the Sacred and the Profane.