Recordings
Seed by Seed: A Look Behind the Collaborative Design of the UW–Madison 175th Anniversary Banners
Anthropology doctoral candidate and Our Shared Future PA Molli Pauliot, professor of design studies Marianne Fairbanks, and professor of digital arts Stephen Hilyard discuss the collaborative design process behind the Seed by Seed banners unveiled on Bascom Hall in 2023. Recorded in 2024 as a part of the UW-Madison 175th Anniversary Community Open House.
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Conversation on Ho-Chunk History and Survivance
Stephen Kantrowitz, professor of history at UW-Madison, and Josie Lee, Director of the Ho-Chunk Nation Museum and Cultural Center, discuss their research into how the United States and its settlers laid claim to the ancestral homeland of the Ho-Chunk people and how the Ho-Chunk people resisted those claims and remained in their homeland. Recorded in 2024 by Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries.
The Ho-Chunk Struggle Against Removal, 1828-1875
Stephen Kantrowitz, professor in the Department of History at UW-Madison, explores the 19th century Ho-Chunk victory over forcible exile from their Wisconsin homeland. Recorded in 2022. Watch on PBS Wisconsin.
Websites
Wisconsin First Nations
Wisconsin First Nations is a website full of resources for teaching about the 12 First Nations of Wisconsin. It features photos, videos, articles, lesson plans, books, and other resources to help people learn and teach American Indian history, culture, and tribal sovereignty.
The Ways
The Ways website contains articles, stories, and videos from American Indian individuals, communities, and nations from the Great Lakes. This website also has an interactive map of American Indian ancestral lands of the Great Lakes prior to US statehood as well as contemporary tribal lands. It is a great resource for teaching American Indian history, culture, and tribal sovereignty.
Indians of the Midwest
Indians of the Midwest is a project of the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies and highlights recent scholarship of American Indian nations of the Midwest. The website has photos, videos, and articles on American Indian history and culture. It covers topics including sovereignty, treaties, treaty rights, cultural and legal identity, and American Indian imagery. The website focuses on American Indian nations of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
Books
People of the Big Voice
People of the Big Voice contains photographs and essays on Ho-Chunk culture and serves as a visual history of Ho-Chunk people at the turn of the 20th century. The chapter Visualizing Native Survivance on by Amy Lonetree on pages 13-22 are recommended to give context to the Treaty of 1832 and the history between the Ho-Chunk and United States.
Decolonizing Museums
Decolonizing Museums is another book by Prof. Amy Lonetree. She explores how the history of First Nations have been told within museums. She discusses how museums can properly tell the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians by challenging stereotypical portrayals of them as well as illuminating the trauma and hard truths of colonization.
First Nations of Wisconsin Book Recommendations
This website has many different books about the First Nations of Wisconsin. These books can all be found at the MERIT library.
Other
Tribal Lands Map
This is a map of current tribal lands in Wisconsin.