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Winnebago

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Region
Great Lakes

In the record

The United States made 11 treaties and agreements that name Winnebago as a party, from Winnebago at St. Louis (1816) to Winnebago at Washington, DC (1865).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 11 cessions of land from Winnebago: about 13 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 5 of them came through removal treaties. The largest was Land of the Winnebago in Wisconsin, ceded 1837 (area 245), about 3.8 million acres, ceded under Winnebago at Washington, DC (1837).

Today, Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

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.

Names

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Self-names

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Other names in English

Land recorded as ceded

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

Who is doing the work

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Native legal and land defense, nationally

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Connections

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Party to 11

Land recorded in this nation’s name 11, as named in the 1899 record

Present-day governments that carry this history 2

Sources

  1. ho-chunknation.com/unclassified
    The Ho-Chunk Nation | People of the Sacred Voice
  2. winnebagotribe.com/unclassified
    As Ho-chunks (Winnebago) Working Together
Research notes

NARA spelling. Endonym not asserted here; ask the nation.

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