In Wisconsin schools, Act 31 is praised as one of the most important social studies bills passed. Act 31 is the “biennial budget bill that addressed several education needs, such as requiring the study of American Indian history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of the eleven federally-recognized tribes in Wisconsin” (O’Connor, 2018). All teachers need to be aware of this Act, and should know how to approach a solid teaching style. There are many ways to go about this, but studying the actions, history and culture of some or all of the tribes in Wisconsin is usually the way to go. There are eleven recognized tribes in the state of Wisconsin, and I am going to be discussing the impacts that the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe and the Ho-Chunk tribe. All of the tribes are important in their own ways, but for this paper, I will be focusing on these two tribes. “In their own language, the word Potawatomi means "Keepers of the Sacred Fire," but they call themselves "Neshnabek," which means "the True People" (Potawatomi History, 2017). The Forest County Potawatomi tribe is presently …show more content…
Following this, in 1832, when the Black Hawk War broke out over the land along of the east bank of the Mississippi, the tribe was forced to divide for the war; the half closest with the Sauk sided with the Black Hawk, while the others allied with their enemy, Santee Sioux. The Santee Sioux eventually took down the Black Hawk in Prairie du Chien, resulting in the Ho-Chunk moving to Minnesota, then South Dakota. They had some government problem such as church and school regulations there. This resulted in Ho-Chunk children attending school in Tomah, WI or Wittenberg, WI (Ho-Chunk History, 2017). This is just a portion of the history that the Ho-Chunk nation went through. There were multiple other treaties and battles that occured that got them their land, and culture,