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The traditional territory of the East Crees is called Eeyou Istchee and Iynu Asci ("Land of the People"). Eeyou or Iyyu is the spelling in northern East Cree, while Iynu in southern East Cree. The traditional territory of the Plains Cree in particular is Paskwāwiýinīnāhk ("In the Land of the Plains Cree"). [226]
The nation is actively seeking to reacquire more traditional land and place it into trust status. [12] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Ho-Chunk Nation reservation parcels totaled 3.46 square miles (8.96 km 2) in 2020, with an additional 12.57 square miles (32.56 km 2) of off-reservation trust land.
The Lac Courte Oreille ceded land under a treaty they signed with the United States in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the first 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The tribal reservation has a land area of 108.36 square miles (280.65 km 2), including the trust lands [3] and a population of 2,968 persons as of the 2020 census. [4]
In Wisconsin, reservations were established at Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, and Lac du Flambeau. The St. Croix and Sokaogon bands, left out of the 1854 treaty, did not obtain tribal lands or federal recognition until the 1930s after the Indian Reorganization Act. In Minnesota, reservations were set up at Fond du Lac and Grand Portage.
Native American tribes in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the western Great Lakes region. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 ...
Milwaukee County – Algonquin word Millioke which means "The Good Land", or "Gathering place by the water". Another interpretation is "beautiful or pleasant lands". City of Milwaukee; City of South Milwaukee; Oneida County – named after the Oneida people. Outagamie County – the Outagamie (Meskwaki, Fox) people
Chief Waukon Decorah in 1825. The Ho-Chunk speak a Siouan language, which they believe was given to them by their creator, Mą’ųna (Earthmaker). [citation needed] Their native name is Ho-Chunk (or Hoocạk), which has been variously translated as "sacred voice" or "People of the Big Voice", meaning mother tongue, as in they originated the Siouan language family.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin This page was last edited on 13 June 2011, at 00:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...