Winnebago Tribe

Various Spellings: Winnebago, Winebago, Winnebaygo

Ancestrial Homeland: near the Door Penisula, near Green Bay on Lake Michigan

Brief Timeline
1634: French explorer Jean Nicolet

1689-1763: French and Indian War fought with the French

1775-83: Revolutionary War - fought with the British

1809-11: Tecumseh's Rebellion fought against the British

1832: Black Hawk War

1840-1863: forced relocation: 700 tribal members died; after the Black Hawk War forced to relocate west of the Mississippi, Iowa then to Minnesota, then to South Dakota and on to Nebraska

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Winnebago tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America and in David Bushnell's Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi.

Tribal Headquarters
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska P.O. Box 687 Winnebago, NE 68071 Phone: 402.878.2272 Fax: 402.878.2963

Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

Treaties

 * 1816 June 3, at St. Louis
 * 1825 August 19, at Prairie du Chien with the Sioux, Etc.,
 * 1827 August 11, at Butte des Morts, with the Chippewa
 * 1828 August 25, at Green Bay
 * 1829 August 1, at Prairie du Chien
 * 1832 September 15,
 * 1837 November 1, at Washington
 * 1846 October 13, at Washington
 * 1855 February 27, at Washington
 * 1859 April 15, at Washington
 * 1865 March 8, at Washington

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution and By-Laws of the Winnebag Tribe Winnebago Reservation in the State of Nebraska. Approved April 3, 1936.
 * Winnebago Indian Official Website
 * Winnebago Reservation Wikipedia