Land area
Land of the Munsee residing on Lake Winnebago, WI and Stockbridge residing on Lake Winnebago, WI in Wisconsin, ceded 1839 (area 257)
- 1839
Ceded to the United States
By Stockbridge and Munsee at Stockbridge, Wisconsin Territory (1839)
In the record
Ceded by the Stockbridge and Munsee on Lake Winnebago in 1839, the east half of their tract. The area covers about 22 thousand acres in what is now Wisconsin.
The 1899 record names Munsee and Stockbridge as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a sale at a stated price with separate terms for those emigrating and those staying; no coercion is stated.
Today, Stockbridge Munsee Community carries the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- Stockbridge-Munsee Community (Band of Mohican Indians) Nation government 372 acres on Monument Mountain's north slope (finalized Apr 2025; $2.5M, $2.26M state grant)
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) Nation government Ojibwe treaty rights in ceded territories, natural resource stewardship, manoomin, and a Land Conservancy program… Give on their site Website
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Nation government Restoration of about 200,000 acres to reservation status (1975)
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Nations named for this land 3
- Munseeas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Stockbridgeas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Stockbridge Munsee Communitymatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1839-09-03primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1839-09-03primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Wisconsin 2 (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 257
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1839-09-03
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Munsee residing on Lake Winnebago, WI; Stockbridge residing on Lake Winnebago, WI
- States
- WI
- Counties
- Calumet
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Wisconsin 2
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium