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In the treaty, the Menominee ceded about 2,500,000 acres (10,000 km 2; 3,900 sq mi) of their land in Wisconsin primarily adjacent to Lake Michigan. During the ratification of the treaty in June 1832, the United States Senate modified the treaty to provide additional land for the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. The Menominee Tribe did not agree to the ...
In May 2010 the UWM Libraries Digital Collections began working in conjunction with the American Geographical Society Library on a preservation project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project, entitled Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images, encompasses "the digitization and rehousing of ...
Entrance to the library. The Golda Meir Library, located in Milwaukee, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, is the main library of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.The library has more than 4.5 million catalogued items, many of which are available electronically through Electronic Reserve, web-based online catalog, searchable databases and indices.
The Wisconsin Historical Marker Program commemorates significant events, sites, people and even legends with decorative plaques. Its requirements aren't as stringent as the national historic ...
These treaties concerned the cession of lands by the tribe, and were part of a large-scale effort by the United States government to purchase and thereby extinguish their claims in the Northwest Territory and the Southeast, and to remove all such indigenous peoples to lands west of the Mississippi River.
Keith Uhlig is a regional features reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin based in Wausau. Contact him at 715-845-0651 or kuhlig@gannett.com . Follow him at @UhligK on X, formerly Twitter, and ...
Map showing the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe land cession area of what now is Minnesota's portion of Lake Superior, Wisconsin and Michigan. The first treaty of La Pointe was signed by Robert Stuart for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe Bands of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River on October 4, 1842 and proclaimed on March 23, 1843, encoded into the laws of the United States ...
In addition, the LRB operates a legislative library, and provides research and library services to the general public. The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Committee on Legislative Organization acts as the governing body overseeing the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau and selects the director, who employs and oversees all bureau staff.