 The major summer ceremonial was the Medicine Dance, which included a secret ceremony for members of the Medicine Dance Society, a religious society open to both men and women, as well as public rituals.The winter feast was a clan ceremony intended to increase war and hunting powers; the spring Buffalo Dance was a magical ceremonial for calling the bison herds.Ho-Chunk women were responsible for growing and gathering food for their families, including agricultural products and a wide variety of roots, nuts and berries, as well as sap from maple trees.