The Milwaukee Indian: a cooperative study by the Governor's Commission on Human Rights and the School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Milwauke…
Wisconsin. Governor's Commission on Human RightsView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn the 1940s and 1950s, the federal government moved to end its financial responsibility to tribes based on a tribe's satisfactory degree of acculturation to white ways and economic self-sufficiency.…
Letters from a meeting at Fond du Lac on Lake Superior with the Ojibwe, in 1826
McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThomas McKenney, head of the new U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs in the War Dept., wrote these letters home from Lake Superior in 1826. The Fond du Lac referred to is near modern Duluth-Superior, and no…
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Sauk and Fox Nations of Indians
Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThomas Forsyth (1771-1833) was an Illinois fur trader who served as Indian agent for the Sauk and Fox Indians from 1818-1830. He was stationed at Rock Island, Ill., just across from their principal to…
Letter XIV. Fort St. Anthony, at the confluence of rivers St. Peter and Mississippi, May 24th, 1823
Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino, 1779-1855View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyGiacomo Costantino Beltrami, an Italian nobleman and soldier, went into voluntary exile after political intriques and the death of close friends in his native land. After arriving in Philadelphia, he…
Condition of Indian affairs in Wisconsin: hearings before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, on Senate resolution no. 263
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian AffairsView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyStarting in 1887, tribal lands were broken up and sold to individuals under a U.S. Indian policy known as "allotment" (see the Dictionary of Wisconsin History for more details). In Wisconsin, allotmen…
The Killing of Chief Joe White, 1894: articles & court documents
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyTreaties signed in 1837, 1842, and 1854 guaranteed the Ojibwe the right to hunt and fish without restriction on their ceded lands in northern Wisconsin. During the 1880s and 1890s, the State of Wiscon…
Moving beyond argument : racism & treaty rights
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife CommissionView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyTreaty rights have long been a contentious issue in the United States. In the last half of the twentieth century, treaty controversies have centered primarily around the rights to hunt, fish, and gath…
Treaty crisis: cultures in conflict
Wisconsin State JournalView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn the 1980s, disputes over treaty rights in Northern Wisconsin, particularly the Ojibwe practice of walleye spearing, began attracting national attention. Treaties made between the U.S. government an…
Un Payement de Menomonies, 1838
Neveu, Gustave de, 1811-1881View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn account written in 1855 by de Neveu of his visit in October 1838 to the Wolf River to witness the payment to the Menominee Indians of their annual payment from the United States government. A typed…
Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]
Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyFather Carheil explains -- at times in graphic detail -- how lust and greed corrupted nearly everyone connected with the fur trade at the western posts. Fur trade voyageurs, hunters, explorers and mer…
Handbook on Wisconsin Indians
Erdman, Joyce MView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe Governor's Commission on Human Rights first published a guide to Wisconsin Indians in 1952 as an attempted corrective to the confusing and inaccurate information that currently existed. In the yea…
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