Violence Against American Indians
Treaties signed between American Indian tribes and the federal government in the 1800s promised that tribes would retain their rights to hunt and fish on the land that they were giving up. It was not until the 1980s, however, that federal courts forced Wisconsin to guarantee these rights. The years that followed saw significant threats, harassment, and violence targeting American Indian hunters and fishermen. Read on to learn more about the violence American Indians experienced.
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Read more about the shooting outside of Minocqua: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2021/01/15/hate-crime-dropped-wisconsin-man-shot-gun-near-tribal-spearfishers/4178407001/
Read more about the harassment of American Indian fishers in the 1980s and 1990s: https://www.mpm.edu/content/wirp/ICW-112
Read more from American Indian communities with their experiences: https://glifwc.org/TreatyRights/protest.html

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Stand Up to Hate draws on real stories from across Wisconsin to educate Wisconsites about hate and hate crimes in our state. Wisconsin Humanities believes that stories and history have the power to to help people better understand their own communities and imagine possibilities for progress and change.
This project was spearheaded by Community Powered with UW-Extension’s division of Positive Youth Development and We Are Many-United Against Hate. It was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative.
