The Ho-Chunk: Discovering History Series, by Paul Wolter and Beverly Vaillancourt, M.Ed.
Grades 3 - 5
Students learn about the history of the Ho-Chunk people and the forced displacement from their native lands through treaties that favored European settlement of Wisconsin. Module 3 provides the opportunity for students to build empathy for other cultures and to try to understand what it is like to be forced to leave one's homeland, as they learn of the struggles and strife the Ho-Chunk experienced in attempting to return to Wisconsin from their displacement to Iowa. Importantly, help students understand the significance of Yellow Thunder's land claim and how it provided a legal strategy for the Ho-Chunk to remain on their native land.
Through a series of treaties in the early 1800s, the Ho-Chunk sold off their land in Wisconsin. Territorial claims with other tribes, food, money, supplies, payment of debts, and the establishment of schools were used as incentives for the Ho-Chunk to agree one
