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Article: THE HO-CHUNK, KICKED OUT OF WISCONSIN, KEPT COMING BACK.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2004
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Byline: Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal
Today's Ho-Chunks survived as a Wisconsin tribe due to the persistence of their ancestors.
While Wisconsin has always been the homeland of the tribe, formerly known as the Winnebago, the government used a series of treaties to forcibly evict them in the 1830s. For the next 40 years, soldiers and bounty hunters rounded up Ho-Chunk people and set them west, sometimes in chains and shackles.
The low point came in 1862, when soldiers evicted them from Minnesota after a Dakota uprising. More than 500 tribal members died that winter on the "Ho-Chunk Trail of Tears" after being shipped in unheated ...