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Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin

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Official name
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin
Recorded status
Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)

In the record

This nation carries the history of Winnebago in the treaty record.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyNot statedShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesWinnebago at St. Louis (1816) (1816)Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1825) (1825)Treaty of Butte des Morts, 1827 (1827)Winnebago and United Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa at Green Bay, Michigan Territory (1828) (1828)Winnebago at Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory (1829) (1829)Winnebago at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Illinois (1832) (1832)Winnebago at Washington, DC (1837) (1837)Winnebago at Washington, DC (1846) (1846)Winnebago at Washington, DC (1855) (1855)Winnebago at Washington, DC (1859) (1859)Winnebago at Washington, DC (1865) (1865)Land takenLand kept by the United States in Wisconsin, 1827 (area 134) (1827)Land of the Winnebago in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1829 (area 149) (1829)Land of the Winnebago in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1832 (area 174) (1832)Land of the Winnebago in Wisconsin, ceded 1837 (area 245) (1837)Land of the Winnebago in Iowa and Minnesota, ceded 1846 (area 267) (1846)Land of the Winnebago in Minnesota, ceded 1855 (area 361) (1855)Land of the Winnebago in Minnesota, ceded 1859 (area 416) (1859)Land of the Winnebago in Minnesota, ceded 1863 (area 439) (1863)Land of the Winnebago in South Dakota, ceded 1865 (area 468) (1865)Land of the Winnebago in Nebraska, recorded 1865 (area 470) (1865)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Land recorded as ceded

This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:

Winnebago About 13 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty or agreement4 million
  • Treaty under documented pressure2 million
  • Removal treaty6 million
  • Not stated20 thousand

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

11 cessions. Follow Winnebago through the years on the map

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 11, matched by the Forest Service, under review

Carries the treaty history of 1

Sources

  1. ho-chunknation.com/unclassified
    were first recorded as the Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe.
  2. Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
    Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
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