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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Remembering the Life of Simon Kahquados
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:08
	Publish Date:		2018-12-12 06:00:00
	Description:		Not all of our history includes fond memories. This week on a Northwoods Moment in History , Gary Entz reminds us of the way Native Americans were treated in the Great Lakes Region in the 19th century, and of a man named of Simon Kahquados. The Potawatomi have lived in the Great Lakes region for more than four centuries. The tribe originally held territory in Michigan but relocated to the Door County Peninsula in Wisconsin due to pressure from the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars of the 17th Century. The tribe expanded around Lake Michigan after 1800, but in Wisconsin much of the land the Potawatomi held overlapped with land the Menominee claimed. In 1831 the Menominee signed the Treaty of Washington that ceded 3 million acres to the federal government. Government officials wanted the Lake Michigan shoreline, but much of that land belonged to the Potawatomi. It didn’t matter as the federal government came in and took the land from the Potawatomi without compensation. This was the era of
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