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Furnishes DataAbout IndiansappssssssTTWashington —UF— About 150 years ago the area that is now southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois was the homeland of about 4,500 Winnebago Indians who maintained about 40 -active villages. jThe figures were supplied _ Tuesday by Dr. Nancy Lurie, [ University of Michigan anthropologist, who testified at a hearing before the three-mem- Cber Indian Affairs Committee, ji The tribe is attempting to C prove it had title to the lands a so as to support its claim that n it received inadequate eompen- £ satlon from the government forthe estimated nine million acres ! j1 involved. Lrder terms of three u treaties sig v*d with the federal government, the tribe received a an average price of 4 to 9 cents per acre.Dr. Lurie has been working on research in connection withPc3the Win ne Dago Tribe since 1944. She testified there w'ere nearly 40 active villages in the area at the time the treaties were signed in 1829, 1832 and A 1837. sMost descendants of the 1 tribe now live in Wisconsin, or on the Winnebago reservation f in Nebraska.
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Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Apr 17, 1957
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