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November 1, 1837

Treaty at Washington: the Winnebago nation ceded to the United States all their lands east of the Mississippi (the 1908 history adds: southeast of the Black river and of the Wisconsin, covering the whole of Rock County); they obligated themselves to remove within eight months after ratification.

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BeloitNovember 1837Month

[Dr.] White's father returned to Beloit, but did not bring his family because there was then no place to put them.

RegionNovember 6, 1837

The second session of the first legislative assembly of the Territory began at Burlington (now in Iowa), remaining in session until January 20, 1838; at this session, per the 1856 history, the seat of government was located at Madison; the governor's message recommended a codification of the laws and organization of the militia.

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In the same year, November 1, 1837, General Henry Dodge secured a treaty whereby the Winnebagoes ceded to the United States all their land east of the Mississippi and southeast of the Black river and of the Wisconsin, thus covering Rock county again, this time the whole of it.

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.Vol. 1, PDF p. 40 / book p. 32

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uks' enemy, the Santee Sioux, and helped bring Black Hawk in to surrender at Prairie du Chien. The bands in the Madison-Portage area tried to remain neutral. The tribe was unable to hold out against the pressure of white settlement and ceded their remaining Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin land in the fall of 1832. As partial payment, they received new land on which to settle in eastern Iowa, the Turkey River, or Neutral Ground Reservation. The bands living in the northwest portion of their homeland, bounded roughly by the Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Black Rivers, tried to keep their land, and in 1837, agreed to send a delegation (that explicitly had no authority to sell land) to Washington to talk about the matter. They were forced into a treaty of cession and the terms were misrepresented to them. They thought they were buying time to renegotiate, that they had eight years before they had to move; the treaty reads "eight months." The people resisted the treaty and hid out. Meanwhile, the Neutral Ground was unlivable as the Ho-Chunk were caught in the cross-fire of the Sioux and Sauk contesting for the land. The Ho-Chunk were moved to two locations in

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