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How the Ho-Chunk Thwarted Removal from Wisconsin

 
Steven Kantrowitz - Professor, Department of History, UW

October 13, 2025

 

​During the 1820s and 1830s, the United States took possession of all of the Ho-Chunk people’s ancestral lands within what is today Wisconsin. Despite this, over many decades, the Ho-Chunk resisted, returned, and ultimately regained the right to live in parts of their homeland. How did they achieve this remarkable reversal of American policies of conquest?

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