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The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
American Indian reservations in Wisconsin (6 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Wisconsin" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Lester Skeesuk (Brothertown Indian), ca. 1920. The Brothertown Indians (also Brotherton), located in Wisconsin, are a Native American tribe formed in the late 18th century from communities descended from Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, Tunxis, Niantic, and Mohegan (Algonquian-speaking) tribes of southern New England and eastern Long Island, New York.
Following encroachment on their land by a fast-growing number American settlers, especially after the establishment of new lead mines on the Galena River, in 1828, Big Foot traveled to Green Bay, along with Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, Odawa, and other Potawatomi leaders, to negotiate and sign a treaty with the United States establishing a temporary ...
Wisconsin placenames of Native American origin (4 P) Pages in category "Native American history of Wisconsin" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
Chippewa County – the Ojibwe (or Chippewa) people . City of Chippewa Falls; Iowa County – the Iowa people; Kenosha County – Kenosha (ginoozhe), an Ojibwe word meaning "pike" (fish)
Meanwhile, as the portion of the St. Croix Band that remained in the St. Croix river valley were not based on any reservation, most received no allotments and little in the way of educational or health services from the US Federal government. People in northern Wisconsin began to refer to the St. Croix Band as "the lost tribe".
The Menominee first signed the 1831 Treaty of Washington, [22] in which they ceded 2,500,000 acres (10,000 km 2) between Lake Michigan and Lake Winnebago to the United States for $125,000. They then signed a second treaty in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 1832, ceding an additional 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2) to the New York Native American ...