Wisconsin Tribes
Battles
Today
Treaties
Random
100

There are this many federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin.

What is the number 11?

100

Also known as the Seven Years War in Europe, the conflict between Britain and France for control of the eastern portion of North America (1754-1763).

What is the French-Indian War?

100

The authority of a state to govern itself.

What is sovereignty?

100

The first of 11 Treaties signed between the Ho-chunk people and the US Government

What is the Treaty of Peace and Friendship?

100

A set of three Supreme Court decisions in the early nineteenth century affirming the legal and political standing of Indian nations

What is the Marshall Trilogy?

200

This is the man tribes met in 1634.

Who is Jean Nicolet?

200

Also called the Redbird War, this was a brief conflict that took place in 1827 in the Upper Mississippi River region of the United States, primarily in what is now the state of Wisconsin.

What is the Winnebago War of 1827?

200

How many tribes are there in the US?

574

200

How many treaties were signed between the US and the Ho-Chunk?

What is 11?

200

15th century concept that gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they "discovered"

What is a the Doctrine of Discovery?

300

he name was given to the Ho-Chunk people by Meskwaki people meaning “people of the stinking water.”

What is Winnebago?

300

A brief war between the US and the Sauk, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos over ceded land.

What is the Black Hawk War?

300

How many branches of government does the Ho-Chunk Nation have?

What is four?

300

The 3 major land cessions by the Ho-chunk people to the US Government occurred in these years.

What is 1829, 1832, and 1837?

300

A Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States; his brother was the Prophet.

Who is Tecumseh?

400

Nancie Lurie wrote this book about a Ho-Chunk woman in Black River Falls.

What is "Mountain Wolf Woman?"

400

Also known as a Massacre, occurred 1–2 August 1832, between Sauk (Sac) and Fox Indians and United States Army regulars and militia.

What is the Battle of Bad Axe?

400

This theory tries to explain the impact of the cumulative impact of psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations emanating from massive group trauma

What is historical trauma?

400

Also known as the “non-abiding faction,” these people continued to return to their Wisconsin homelands through the period from the 1830s to 1874.

What are the Renegades?

400

Also known as the General Allotment Act, it was adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians

What is the Dawes Act?

500

These two tribes claim to be indigenous to the state of Wisconsin.

Who are the Ho-Chunk and Menominee?

500

Also known as the Sioux Uprising, this was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux in Minnesota that ended with the larges mass hanging.

What is the Dakota War?

500

This act allowed Native American tribes to establish gaming on their lands.

What is a the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act?

500

How many times were the Ho-Chunk removed from their home?

What is five?

500

Established by the German Reformed Church in 1878 located east of Black River Falls within the various homesteads that were established among the Ho-chunk people

What is the Indian Mission?