Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Stephen David Kantrowitz and Stephen Kantrowitz

Book Overview

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded their remaining ancestral lands to the U.S. government. Over the four decades that followed, as "free soil" settlement repeatedly demanded their further expulsion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469673606
• ISBN13: 9781469673608
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"