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The reservation occupies northern Thurston County, Nebraska, as well as southeastern Dixon County and Woodbury County, Iowa, and a small plot of off-reservation land of southern Craig Township in Burt County, Nebraska. The other federally recognized Winnebago tribe is the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.
The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres (647 hectares) of land the federal government took more than 50 years ago and never developed. A new law will require the U.S ...
The Winnebago Reservation, established by a treaty on 8 March 1865, [6] is in Thurston and Dixon counties, Nebraska, and Woodbury County, Iowa. [7] The reservation is 176.55 square miles (112,990 acres; 457.3 km 2), [8] of which 27,637 acres (43.183 sq mi; 111.84 km 2) is tribal trust land. [1] In 1990, 1,151 tribal members lived on the ...
The Winnebago Bend Wildlife Area was made up of land illegally condemned in 1970. Soon it will be returned to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 1,600 acres of land in western Iowa is being returned ...
The congressional delegations from Nebraska and Iowa have thrown their support behind legislation that would return land to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska that the federal government took decades ...
The Winnebago Indian Reservation lies primarily in the northern part of Thurston and a small part of Dixon counties in Nebraska, with an additional portion in Woodbury County, Iowa. A small plot of off-reservation land of 116.75 acres (0.4725 km 2) is in southern Craig Township in Burt County, Nebraska.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Ho-Chunk Nation reservation parcels totaled 3.46 square miles (8.96 km 2) in 2020, with an additional 12.57 square miles (32.56 km 2) of off-reservation trust land. The combined reservation and off-reservation trust land have a total area of 16.03 square miles (41.51 km 2), of which 15.93 square miles ...
They had been sent on their 1,200-mile journey by Capt. W.H. Beck, an Indian agent who oversaw the Winnebago and Omaha tribes at a time when the federal government was breaking up reservation lands.