Indian Casino Near Madison Wi

1. Indian Casino Madison Wi

Lake of the Torches Resort Casino’s lakeside hotel offers all the comforts of home as well as incredible views of the picturesque Northwoods of Wisconsin. Featuring more than 100 of the coziest rooms in Lac du Flambeau, you’ll find Lake of the Torches Resort Casino. All casinos in Wisconsin are located on Indian reservations. There are many casinos with hotels in Wisconsin. Of the 22 casinos in the state, 12 of them have hotels. The Wisconsin casinos are spread evenly through out the state. If you are looking for western Wisconsin casinos, there are several located in Danbury, Hayward, Turtle Lake and Webster.

This is a list of casinos in Wisconsin.

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• Menominee Casino and Bingo

• Mole Lake Casino sign

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1. ^'Wisconsin Indian Casinos'. 500 Nations. Retrieved 20 December 2009.

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• Media related to Casinos in Wisconsin at Wikimedia Commons

The American Indian population in Wisconsin dates back centuries. Their presence in this state predates Wisconsin statehood and the majority of the population who came during that time. Evidence suggests that the early peoples of Wisconsin arrived about 10,000 years ago.¹ Archeologists have found many clues of the past lives of the Native peoples in this region through excavation of sites all across the state. Effigy mounds, mounds in the shape of animals, have been found as burial sites for the early Wisconsin inhabitants.² Mississippian culture was also a significant era in the history of the early populations in Wisconsin over 1,000 years ago. In Wisconsin, these people are called Oneota.³ They lived in villages and planted gardens to grow crops such as corn, beans and squash.⁴ They had a complex trade network that extended to both the Atlantic and the Gulf coasts.⁵ Before European contact, American Indians lived throughout the area where Wisconsin is today. They lived off the land, farming, hunting and gathering, maintaining strong family ties and cultural traditions within their respective tribes. American Indians in Wisconsin have a rich cultural heritage that is been passed down from generation to generation by tribal elders. The presence of European settlers drastically altered their way of life.

The American Indian population in Wisconsin first saw White settlers with the arrival of French and English fur traders. The first were French trader Jean Nicolet and the missionary Jacques Marquette near the Red Banks in 1634.^.6 During this time, fur was the main focus and fur traders and missionaries worked with the American Indians to achieve their objectives for over 150 years.⁷ However, this changed when settlers came to Wisconsin. The American government was established and the population continued to increase. America began to expand west to make room for the incoming settlers, without regard to the lives of American Indians.

In 1804, the government forced the Sauk and Fox tribes to cede their land claims in southern Wisconsin in a treaty they had not agreed to.⁸ These actions led to the Black Hawk War of 1832. The largest American Indian population in Wisconsin, the Menominee, was pressured to sell away 11,600 square miles of land along the lower Fox River^.9 The Treaty of Prairie du Chien of 1825 was significant in the history of American Indians in Wisconsin, after European settlement. The treaty was facilitated by the United States government to end the inter-tribal warfare that was disrupting the fur trade and creating tensions between settlers and the tribes.¹⁰ The tension between tribes was created because the United States government had used them against each other to gain more lands.¹¹ The Treaty of Prairie du Chien established a treaty of peace among the tribes and demarcated boundaries between settlers and American Indians.¹²

By 1871, most American Indians had been placed on reservations and the government discontinued its use of treaties with them.¹³ The government changed its focus to 'de-Indianizing' this population, creating schools that attempted to rid them of their cultural traditions and ways of life by breaking tribal ties and molding them into the image of white settlers.¹⁴ However, before this time, between the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the federal government aimed to mainstream Native Americans through the policies of assimilation and allotment.¹⁵ Some of these schools included Menominee Boarding School at Keshena, Oneida Boarding School at Oneida, Lac du Flambeau Boarding School at Lac du Flambeau, and Tomah Industrial School at Tomah.¹⁶

American Indians represent diverse nations of people who flourished in North America for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The Menominee, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) peoples are among the original inhabitants of Wisconsin. American Indian people are heterogeneous and their histories differ based on tribal affiliation. These groups have tribal councils, or governments, which provide leadership to the tribe. American Indians continue to maintain a strong presence in Wisconsin, and traditional beliefs and practices remain prominent in American Indian culture. As with all groups, there are differences in social, economic, and geographic conditions in American Indian communities that affect health status and access to care.

In their attempt to assimilate the Native populations, Congress passed the General Allotment Act of 1887, or the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act changed the ownership of tribal lands to individual ownership of 80-acre parcels. The extra land was sold to Whites to expose the American Indian population to mainstream society. Many tribes had lost even more of their land. For example, the Ojibwe lost more than 40 percent of their homelands to this Act.¹⁷ In 1934, Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA).¹⁸ This reversed the Dawes Act, and encouraged tribes to form tribal governments, draft constitutions, and provided political bodies that could assert their sovereign rights.¹⁹

In the 1950s, critics began to gain ground in their opposition to the Indian Reorganization Act and argued to dismantle the reservation system and free the federal government from the cost of protecting American Indians and their property.²⁰ The House Concurrent Resolution 108 (passed in 1953) created goals of 'termination and relocation,' which were intended to move these populations from rural reservations to urban areas through job training programs and housing assistance.²¹ Most Wisconsin Indians who opted for this received one-way bus tickets to Chicago, Milwaukee, or St. Paul.²² This termination policy ended the federal recognition of more than 50 tribal governments, including the Menominee, who were one of the first tribes to undergo termination.²³ Termination brought disastrous effects to this tribe, but with the help of a grassroots activist group, Determination of Rights and Unity for Menominee Shareholders (DRUMS), the Menominee were able to restore their status by 1975.²⁴

In 1987, Wisconsin held a referendum that approved the creation of the state lottery and gave Wisconsin tribes the right to establish casino gambling.²⁵ Many tribes created casinos as an opportunity to bring economic benefits to reservation communities, including the Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, Mohican, and Potawatomi.²⁶

Indian Casino Madison Wi

For more than a century, Wisconsin tribes have fought to maintain their sovereignty and self-determination in the face of federal policies of assimilation, allotment, and termination. In the last generation, the tribes' legal status has been clearly defined, their traditional treaty rights guaranteed, and their economic base boosted by gaming and tourism.²⁷

Citations:

1. First Peoples: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-002/?action=more_essay
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Americanization and the Bennett Law: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-031/?action=more_essay
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.

Additional Information about American Indians in Wisconsin

• Health-related information about the American Indian population of Wisconsin is available from an interactive data query system, Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH), on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services site.
• A synopsis of health-related findings about American Indians in Wisconsin can be found in the Department's Wisconsin Minority Health Report, 2001-2005, P-45716(PDF).

Related links

• University of Wisconsin at Madison, American Indian Studies
• Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC)
• Department of Health Services Tribal Affairs Office