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The Ho-Chunk People’s Struggle Against Removal, 1828-1875
By Stephen Kantrowitz
Between 1828 and 1837, the United States coerced the Ho-Chunk people into signing a series of treaties that stripped them of title to their ancestral homestead. For the next forty years, over and over, the government sent soldiers to expel them to homelands and reservations west of the Mississippi River. During those same years, from the 1840s to the 1870s, the Ho-Chunk were also forcibly removed from many of those new lands as well. Despite this history of dispossession and expulsion, though, many Ho-Chunk people live to this day in large parts of their ancestral homeland. Many of them are tribal members of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
This address was delivered at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center in Plymouth, Wisconsin, on October 11, 2024.
