Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States Kantrowitz Stephen
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States Kantrowitz Stephen This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native…
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Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States Kantrowitz Stephen
This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. government. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded their remaining ancestral lands to the U.S.
government's policies of civilization, allotment, and citizenship. Over the four decades that followed, as free soil settlement repeatedly demanded their further expulsion, many Ho-Chunk people lived under the U.S. Others lived as outlaws, evading military campaigns to expel them and adapting their ways of life to new circumstances.
After the Civil War, as Reconstruction's vision of nonracial, national, birthright citizenship excluded most Native Americans, the Ho-Chunk who remained in their Wisconsin homeland understood and exploited this