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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How the Treaty of St. Peters in 1837 Affects the Northwoods Today
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:02:34
	Publish Date:		2018-06-29 06:00:00
	Description:		This week on A Northwoods Moment in History , local historian Gary Entz explains the Treaty of St. Peters and how it affects us in the Northwoods today. During the early decades of the nineteenth century, Americans living in the new United States aggressively pushed westward, taking more and more land from the peoples of the First Nations. President Andrew Jackson’s Removal Policy, enacted into law in 1830, accelerated the process. As the population of settlers grew along the Ohio River valley and forests were slashed and burned to make room for agriculture, the demand for new sources of timber increased, particularly in growing cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Cleveland. This demand drew the attention of federal officials to the Northwoods region of the Wisconsin Territory. In 1836, Andrew Jackson appointed Col. Henry Dodge, a veteran of the 1832 Black Hawk War, to be the Territorial Governor of Wisconsin. In 1837, after the inauguration of Martin Van Buren as President of the
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