![]() Native people remained in Teejop and throughout Wisconsin, but for the first century of the university’s life not one Native person from Wisconsin graduated from the university. The University of Wisconsin was founded in 1848, in the same year as the State of Wisconsin. Adjusted for inflation, this represents nearly $5 million that still benefits the university today. For example, under the Morrill Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, the University of Wisconsin received 235,530 acres in northern Wisconsin, which it sold for a $303,439 profit. The university also received the profits from grants of “public lands” that the federal government had seized from Native people in other treaties. ![]() took from the Ho-Chunk in 1832 was the most important way in which the university benefited from the seizure of Indigenous people’s lands. Many Ho-Chunk people refused to leave Wisconsin, and many others quickly returned. But the Ho-Chunk people’s spiritual connection to this land and its waters and to their ancestors could not be broken by treaties and violence. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed, during which the state and federal governments repeatedly sent soldiers to banish the Ho-Chunk from Teejop and the rest of their homeland. authorities repeated this demand in an 1833 meeting with Ho-Chunk leaders just a few miles from here, in today’s city of Middleton. The treaty demanded that they leave the region, and U.S. army occupied large parts of Wisconsin, and the Ho-Chunk had no choice but to sell the land. official called “the blended grounds of conquest & contract.” A U.S. The Treaty of 1832 took place under duress-what one U.S. ![]() The Treaty of 1832 may be our campus’s most important document: it is the legal basis on which the city and the university could be built and on which non-Ho-Chunk people can now reside. demanded that the Ho-Chunk surrender a huge area of land, including this region. In an 1825 treaty, the United States recognized it as such. The land on which the city of Madison and the university stand are part of the ancestral homeland of the Ho-Chunk people. For UW–Madison, as for the entirety of the United States, the land was taken from Indigenous peoples. To establish a university, you need land. The Needs of Black Students are the Needs of the University.Pre-1969 Black Student Strike Organizing.
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