Once Upon a House

June 1, 1833

The time provided for the Indians to give possession of the ceded Winnebago lands arrived; no band of Winnebagoes was allowed to reside, plant, fish or hunt on the ceded grounds after this date, and the Indians were to have thirty days of soldier's rations.

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The evidence

  • “Article XI. of the treaty of September 15, 1832, reads, "No band (of Winnebagoes) shall plant, fish, reside or hunt, after June 1, 1833, on any portion of the country ceded herein to the United States." (That covered the west half of Rock county.) The Indians were to have left at that date and were to have thirty days of soldier's rations, not exceeding 60,000 rations in all. They were also given a tract of land west of the Mississippi and promised, after they had moved, $10,000 each year for the next twenty-seven years.”

    1908-brown-rock-county/02-ancient-occupants.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 40 / book p. 32

    Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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