Yellow Thunder

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Yellow Thunder (c. 1774–1874), was a chief of the Ho-Chunk (or Winnebago) tribe. He signed two treaties with the United States in which his Ho-Chunk name was given as Wa-kun-cha-koo-kah and Waun-kaun-tshaw-zee-kau.

In 1837, Yellow Thunder was part of a Ho-Chunk delegation headed by principal chief

removal treaty ceding all Ho-Chunk land west of the Mississippi River to the United States.[1] The delegates thought that the treaty gave the Ho-Chunks eight years to leave Wisconsin, which would leave them time to negotiate a new treaty, but the wording on the document gave the tribe eight months to vacate Wisconsin and resettle on reservations in Iowa and Minnesota.[2]

In 1840, U.S. Army General Henry Atkinson was assigned to round up the Ho-Chunks who refused to leave.[2] Two chiefs, Yellow Thunder and Little Soldier, were arrested.[1] Realizing that further resistance would lead to violence against their people, the chiefs agreed to cooperate and were released. Yellow Thunder eventually moved off the Iowa reservation and returned to a 40-acre (160,000 m2) farm near Portage, Wisconsin,[3][4] where he died in late February, 1874.[5][6]

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  2. ^ a b Robert E. Bieder, Native American communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960: a study of tradition and change (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 132.
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  6. ^ Virgil J. Vogel, Indian names on Wisconsin's map (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), 67–70.

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