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Tribes Recognized by the Federal Government
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Forest County Potawatomi Community Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin Lac Corte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Menominee Indians Tribe of Wisconsin Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Sokaogon Chippewa Community St. Croix Chippewa Indians Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Mohican Indians

Multiple states:

Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin (also in Minnesota) Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
 * Fond du Lac Band (also in Wisconsin)

Tribes Recognized by the State of Wisconsin
There are no tribes recognized by the State of Wisconsin.

Historical Tribes in Wisconsin
The following list of indigenous peoples who have lived in Wisconsin has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians... and from Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America. Some are simply variant spellings for the same tribe.

Tribes:


 * Chippewa
 * Dakota
 * Fox
 * Ho-Chunk
 * Housatonic
 * Illinois
 * Iowa
 * Iroquois
 * Kickapoo
 * Mahican
 * Mascouten
 * Menominee
 * Miami
 * Missouri
 * Munsee
 * New York Indians
 * Noquet
 * Ojibwe
 * Oneida
 * Oto
 * Ottawa
 * Potawatomi
 * Sauk
 * Stockbridge
 * Tionontati
 * Winnebago (Ho-Chunk and Hochungra)
 * Wyandot

Bands:


 * Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * Sokaogon (Mole Lake) Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * St Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
 * Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans

Council of the Three Fires: Potawatomi or Bodewadmi, Odawa and Ojibwe tribes.

Menominee Clans (or Phratry): Clans organized the community. Each clan was responsible for one aspect of the Society (Keepers of the law, Hunting and gathering, architecture, construction and art, individual security and freedom and justice)


 * Bear Clan, Big Thunder Clan, Wolf Clan, Crane Clan, Moose Clan.

1963 The Wisconsin Winnebago Nation was federally recognized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. In 1994 the Bureau of Indian Affairs accepted the Tribe's name legally changed to the Ho-Chunk Nation - the People of the Big Voice - which they had always called themselves.

The Oneida Nation is part of the Iroquois Confederacy, known as The Six Nations. The other nations are the Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas and Tuscarroras.

Source

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurace and Renewal by Patty Loew. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison. WI. C. 2001. WorldCat

Wisconsin Indians. By Nancy Oestreich Lurie. WorldCat

Agency Records
The Wisconsin Historical Society has also identified the major agencies in Wisconsin, with the names of the agents who served there.


 * Bad River Agency
 * Bayfield -- 1836-1878
 * Carter Agency
 * Fort Winnebago Subagency -- 1828-1837
 * Grand Rapids Agency
 * Great Lakes Agency, Ashland, WI. 54806- 1948 to present
 * Green Bay Agency -- 1815-1886
 * Hayward Agency and School
 * Keshena Agency -- 1874-1906
 * La Pointe Agency -- 1836-1906
 * Lac Du Flambeau Agency
 * Laona Agency
 * Menominee Agency/ Field Office, Minneapolis Area Office, 15 South 5th St. 10 Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55402
 * New Lisbon (Special) Agency -- 1870
 * Oneida Agency
 * Prairie du Chien Agency -- 1807-1839
 * Red Cliff Agency
 * Rock River Subagency
 * Tomah Agency
 * Winnebago Agency -- 1864-1870

Allotment Records
Allotted Tribes of Wisconsin

•Ho-Chuck (Winnebago), Lac Courte Oreille, Lac Du Flambeau, La Pointe (Bad River), Oneida, Potawatomi, Red Cliff, Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans •Menominee

Reservations in Wisconsin
The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America , and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.


 * Bad River Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Chippewa; located in Ashland and Iron Counties, in the extreme northern part of the state.
 * Forest County Potawatomi Community: see Potawatomi Reservation
 * Ho-Chunk Reservation (formerly Winnebago)
 * La Pointe Reservation: former name of Bad River Reservation
 * Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation: (1854) Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Chippewa; located in northern Wisconsin, in Sawyer County.
 * Lac du Flambeau Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa; Located in northern Wisconsin in Iron, Oneida, and Vilas Counties.
 * Menominee Reservation: State, under the jurisdiction of the Menominee Field Office, Tribe Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa; located in northeastern Wisconsin in Menominee County.
 * Mole Lake Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Sokagoan Chippewa Community; located in northeastern Wisconsin, in Forest County.
 * Oneida Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Oneida; Located in eastern Wisconsin, near Green Bay, in Brown and Outagamie Counties.
 * Potawatomi Reservation: State, under the jurisdiction of Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Potawatomi; Located in northeastern Wisconsin in Forest County.
 * Red Cliff Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Red Cliff Band of Chippewa; located on the northernmost tip of Wisconsin, in Bayfield County.
 * Saint Croix Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: St. Croix Band of Chippewa; located in northern Wisconsin in Burnett and Polk Counties.
 * Sokaogon Chippewa Reservation: See Mole Lake Reservation.
 * Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency; Tribe: Stockbridge and Munsee; located in northeastern Wisconsin in Shawano County.
 * Winnebago Reservation: Federal, under the jurisdiction of the Great Lakes Agency, Tribe: Winnebago

Wisconsin Indian Schools
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 * Hayward Indian School
 * Keshena School or Menominee Boarding School
 * Lac du Flambeau Boarding School
 * Oneida Indian School
 * Red Cliff School
 * Stockbridge Day School
 * Tomah Indian School
 * Winnebago Indian School
 * Wittenberg Indian School

Missions in Wisconsin
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Indian Health Agencies in Wisconsin

 * Tomah Hospital

Wisconsin Map of Indian Lands
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Wisconsin Native Americans Historical Background
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Archives
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Libraries

 * Northern Superintendency, 1851-1876, 35 films M1160 FamilySearch Library 1st film
 * Wisconsin Superintendency 1836-1848 M951 FS Library book
 * School Records for Hayward and Wittenberg

Search FamilySearch Catalog Wisconsin Native Races

Museums
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Societies
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Other Repositories
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For Further Reading

 * Wisconsin-History Wiki page for a calendar of events
 * Wisconsin-Military Wiki page for a list of forts
 * Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. Wisconsin Indians. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1980. (FS Library book ) Contains a helpful bibliography.
 * Mason, Carol I. Introduction to Wisconsin Indians: Prehistory to Statehood. Salem, Wisconsin: Sheffield Publishing, 1988. (FS Library book .)