History Program: “The Ho-Chunk Struggle Against Removal from Wisconsin”

During the 1820s and 1830s, the United States seized the Ho-Chunk people’s entire ancestral homeland and tried repeatedly to force them into exile west of the Mississippi River. Despite this, the Ho-Chunk people persisted, endured, and re-established a permanent place for themselves in Wisconsin. Who and what shaped this history? And how has it shaped our world today? Presented by: Stephen Kantrowitz, UW History Professor and Author of Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States