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Chief Little Hill
Warriors Citation
Little Hill, a nineteenth-century leader of the Wisconsin Winnebago, testified before Congress in 1865 that his people had
been subjected to seven treaties that forced them to move six times. In the 1820s, the group was evicted from its land along
the Wisconsin River; they were forced to wander about for decades, until they settled in Minnesota, only to find local settlers
coveting their land in the wake of the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862. The Winnebagos fled to the Crow Creek Reservation in
South Dakota.
Most fell into poverty there, and some secretly moved back to Wisconsin; others took refuge with the Omahas in Nebraska. Later,
Little Hill's unwilling nomads were given a tract of land neighboring the Omahas in northeastern Nebraska, which they occupy
to this day. At the 1865 congressional hearings into fraud among Indian agents, Little Hill told of his people's travails
in South Dakota and how some agents fed them food that killed. From: historical accounts & records
LINK TO BRAVEHORSE WARRIORS VOLUME TWO
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