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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winnebago Indians, (search)
me a party to the treaty at Greenville, in 1795. With Tecumseh they gave help to the British in the War of 1812. Afterwards, for many years, until the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, there were continual collisions and irritations between the Winnebagoes and white people on the frontiers. They ceded their lands in Wisconsin and became lawless and roving bands. They had reservations (from which they were removed from time to time) on the head-waters of the Mississippi, and, finally, they had begun to plant and show signs of civilization, when the Sioux War broke out, in 1862, and the people of Minnesota demanded their removal. They were disarmed in 1863, and driven into the wilderness on the Mississippi River, Dakota Territory. They were finally settled at the Omaha and Winnebago agency in Nebraska, where, in 1899, they numbered 1,173, and had farms, cottages, and stock; they dressed like white people, and had three schools. There were 1,202 Omahas at the same agency.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
ern Reserve breaks in two on Lake Superior; twenty-six persons drowned......Sept. 1, 1892 Propeller Wocoken ashore off Long Point, Lake Erie; fourteen lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893 Propeller Dean Richmond founders off Dunkirk, Lake Erie; twenty-three lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893 Propellers Philadelphia and Albany collide off Point Aux Barques, Lake Huron; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 7, 1893 Steamer Niagara founders in Lake Erie; sixteen lives lost......Dec. 5, 1899 Mississippi River. Steamboat Brandywine burned near Memphis; about 110 lives lost......April 9, 1832 Steamer Rob Roy explodes near Columbia; about twenty lives lost......June 9, 1836 Steamer Ben Sherrod, racing with steamer Prairie, takes fire 30 miles below Natchez; 175 lives lost......May 9, 1837 Steamer Dubuque explodes near Bloomington, Wis.; twenty-six lives lost......Aug. 15, 1837 Steamer Monmouth collides with Trenton, in tow of steamer Warren, near Prophet Island, and sinks; of 49
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