State
Wisconsin
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 32 cessions that lie at least partly in Wisconsin, from 1804 to 1856, under 20 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Chippewa (Ojibwe), Winnebago, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Stockbridge and 4 more.
The atlas records 5 broken treaty promises here, including Termination policy: House Concurrent Resolution 108 (1953) and Public Law 280, Menominee termination (1954-1973) and Voigt decision (1983): Wisconsin's denial of 1837/1842 treaty rights. Land has come back here: Menominee Legend Lake buybacks (Wisconsin Supreme Court), Menominee restoration to reservation status and Native Land Conservancy land holdings.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Everything here is linked at state level only. The atlas does not look up addresses or parcels, and a cession touching a state does not tell you whose land a particular place is.
Who is doing the work
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)
- 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)
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.
Contains 40
- Land of the Sauk and Fox in Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin, ceded 1804 (area 50)1804
- Land of the Sauk and Fox in Wisconsin, ceded 1804 (area 51)1804
- Treaty of St. Louis 1804: cession signed by a delegation with no authority to sell1804suggested
- Land kept by the United States in Wisconsin, 1816 (area 78a)1816
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa nations of the waters of the Illinois, Milwaukee, and Manitowoc rivers and others in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1829 (area 147)1816
- Land 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 Menomini in Wisconsin, ceded 1831 (area 158)1831
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, recorded 1831 (area 159)1831
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, recorded 1831 (area 160)1831
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, recorded 1831 (area 161)1831
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, recorded 1831 (area 162)1831
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- Land of the Winnebago in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1832 (area 174)1832
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1833 (area 187)1833
- Land of the Menomini in Michigan and Wisconsin, ceded 1836 (area 219)1836
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, ceded 1836 (area 220)1836
- Land of the Chippewa in Minnesota and Wisconsin, ceded 1837 (area 242)1837
- Land of the Sioux in Minnesota and Wisconsin, ceded 1837 (area 243)1837
- Land of the Winnebago in Wisconsin, ceded 1837 (area 245)1837
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in Wisconsin, ceded 1838 (area 246)1838
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in Wisconsin, recorded 1838 (area 247)1838
- Land of the Munsee residing on Lake Winnebago, WI and Stockbridge residing on Lake Winnebago, WI in Wisconsin, ceded 1839 (area 257)1839
- Land of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Michigan and Wisconsin, ceded 1842 (area 261)1842
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, ceded 1848 (area 271)1848
- Land of the Stockbridge in Wisconsin, ceded 1856 (area 272)1848
- Sandy Lake (1850): removal order and annuity relocation in breach of Ojibwe treaties1850suggested
- Land of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin, recorded 1854 (area 341)1854
- Land of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin, recorded 1854 (area 342)1854
- Land of the Menomini in Wisconsin, ceded 1856 (area 403)1854
- Reservation of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin (area 334)1854
- Reservation of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin (area 335)1854
- Reservation of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin (area 336)1854
- Reservation of the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior in Wisconsin (area 337)1854
- Reservation of the Menomini in Wisconsin (area 322)1854
- Termination policy: House Concurrent Resolution 108 (1953) and Public Law 2801953suggested
- Menominee termination (1954-1973)1954suggested
- Voigt decision (1983): Wisconsin's denial of 1837/1842 treaty rights1970suggested
- Menominee restoration to reservation status1973suggested
- Native Land Conservancy land holdings2014suggested
- Menominee Legend Lake buybacks (Wisconsin Supreme Court)suggested
Organizations working here 3
Sources
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