Narrative of Spoon Decorah
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- 1814-1887
- Description
Ho-Chunk chief Spoon Decorah granted this interview to Reuben Gold Thwaites in March of 1887, when he was about 80 years old. Decorah recounts traditions about Tecumseh, his memory of the Winnebago War of 1827, and events surrounding the Black Hawk War. He also describes how the Ho-Chunk mined lead in southwestern Wisconsin in his youth, and how white settlement changed the lives of the Ho-Chunk, including their removal west of the Mississippi and ultimate return to their homelands.
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DeKaury, Spoon, Ho-Chunk Indian, d. 1889
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Publisher
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Subjects
- Native Americans
Indians of North America Government relations
Lead mines and mining
Black Hawk War, 1832
Ho-Chunk
Sauk - Location
- Madison, Wis.
Adams County; Brown County; Columbia County; Sawyer County; Green Lake County; Juneau County; La Crosse County; Vernon County
Wisconsin; Iowa; Minnesota; - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- DeKaury, Spoon, Ho-Chunk Indian, d. 1889. Narrative of Spoon Decorah. 1814-1887. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/40167. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- DeKaury, Spoon, Ho-Chunk Indian, d. 1889, (1814-1887) Narrative of Spoon Decorah. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/40167
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- DeKaury, Spoon, Ho-Chunk Indian, d. 1889. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/40167>.