Many Voices:

Classroom Activities on Wisconsin Indian Treaties and Tribal Sovereignty

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Elementary-level Activities

   Introduction

   The Indian People of Wisconsin and Their Relationships to the Environment, Part I

   The Indian People of Wisconsin and Their Relationships to the Environment, Part II

   Treaties and Treaty Making, Part I

   Treaties and Treaty Making, Part II

   Federal -- Indian Relations in Wisconsin Before Statehood

   Land Cessions, Removal, and Reservations

   Efforts to Destroy Tribal Cultures

   Reaffirming Treaty Rights and Tribal Sovereignty

   Indian Tribes and Tribal Government Today

   Resources

    

2. Middle-level Activities

   Introduction

   Wisconsin Indian Peoples

   Common Attributes of Nations and Indian Tribes

   The Constitutional Framework of Treaty Making

   Early Federal -- Indian Policy in Wisconsin

   Wisconsin Indian Land Cessions and Resistance to Removal

   Survival During the Reservation Era

   Acculturation, Assimilation, and Traditionalism

   Efforts to Destroy Tribal Cultures

   Reaffirmation of Treaty Rights and Tribal Sovereignty

   Tribal Sovereignty Today

   Resources

    

3. High-level Activities

   Introduction

   Wisconsin Indian Peoples

   The Constitutional Framework of Treaty Making

   Treaties and Treaty Making

   Impact of Treaty Making on Wisconsin Indians

   Reservation and Non-Reservation Indians

   Dual Citizenship

   A New Deal for Wisconsin Indians

   Assaults on Tribal Sovereignty and Treaty Rights, 1961 to the Present

   Resources

    

4. Fundamentals

   Pretest on Indian Treaty Rights and Tribal Sovereignty

   Maps

   Tribal Facts

   Seasonal Traditional Activities

   Traditional Family and Clan Relationships

   Traditional Indian Life: A Photo Essay

   Tribal Sovereignty

   Chronology of Federal-Tribal Relations

   Treaty Negotiations

   Making Indian Chiefs

   The Indian Removal policy

   U.S. Courts and the Indians

   Education Programs

   Reservation Life

   Those Who Remained without Reservations

   Indian Land Allotment and U.S. Citizenship

   The Status of the Indians in the Late 1920s

   Biographical Case Study: Excepts from the Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian Woman Mountain Wolf Woman (1884-1960)

   The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

   Tribal Responses to the Wheeler-Howard (Indian Reorganization) Bill of 1934

   Tribal Governments

   Tribal Courts, Tribal Judges, and Indian Law in Wisconsin

   Indian Soldiers Defend the United States

   The Status of Indians in the 1950s

   Termination

   Wisconsin's Urban Indians

   Indian Resurgence: From Termination to Self-Determination, 1961-91

   Indian Voices of the 1960s and 1970s

   Reflections of Indian Youth

   Indian Communities in the Late 1960s

   State Legislation, Executive Orders, and Legal Opinions

   Wisconsin Indian Treaty Rights

   Indian Gaming and Economic Development

   Recognizing the Unrecognized

   The Numbers Game

   Frequently Asked Questions about Indians

   Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc.

    

5. Treaties

   Introduction

   1. Treaty of Greenville between the United State and the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and other Tribes of the Great Lakes Region (1795)
   2. Treaty between the United States and the Sac and Fox Indians (1804)
   3. Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Nation (1816)
   4. Treaty between the United States and the United Tribes of the Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potawatomis (1816)
   5. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Nation (1817)
   6. Treaty of Green Bay between the Menominee and Winnebago Nations and the Brothertown, Munsee, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Other New York Indian Nations (1821)
   7. Treaty of Prairie du Chien between the United States and the Sioux, Chippewa, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Winnebago, a Portion of the United Tribes of Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potawatomis, and Other Tribes (1825)
   8. Treaty of Butte des Mortes between the United States and Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago Tribes (1827)
   9. Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Tribe and the United Tribes of Potawatomi , Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians (1828)
   10. Treaty between the United States and the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians (1829)
   11. Treaty between the United State and the Winnebago Nation (1829)
   12. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Nation with Supplementary Articles (1831)
   13. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Nation with Appendix between the United States and Brothertown, Stockbridge and Munsee, and the Six Nations and St. Regis Tribe (1832)
   14. Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Nation (1832)
   15. Treaty of Chicago between the United States and the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians (1833)
   16. Treaty of the Cedars between the United States and the Menominee Nation (1836)
   17. Treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Nation (1837)
   18. Treaty between the United States and the Sioux Nation (1837)
   19. Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Nation (1837)
   20. Treaty of Buffalo Creek between the United States and the Brothertowns, Munsees, Oneidas, St. Regis, Stockbridges, and Other New York Indian Nations (1838)
   21. Treaty between the United States and the Fist Christian and Orchard Parties of the Oneida Indians at Green Bay (1838)
   22. Treaty between the United States and the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes (1839)
   23. Treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and of Lake Superior (1842)
   24. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Tribe (1848)
   25. Treaty between the United States and the Stockbridge Indians (1848)
   26. Treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior and the Mississippi (1854)
   27. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Tribe (1854)
   28. Treaty between the United States and the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes (1856)
   29. Treaty between the United States and the Menominee Tribe (1856)

   References

    

6. Appendixes
   1. Glossary
   2. State of Wisconsin Native American Tribal and Intertribal Offices
   3. Selected Bibliography
   4. Cover Sheet for suggestions

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