Blue Earth Reservation

The Blue Earth Reservation for the Ho-Chunk nation existed from 1855 to 1863. It was originally created through a treaty ratified on March 23, 1855, which dissolved the previous Ho-Chunk "Long Prairie" reservation in the Minnesota Territory and created a new 18-square-mile (47 km2) reservation along the Blue Earth River, three miles south of present-day Mankato, Minnesota. Following the Dakota War of 1862, this reservation was eliminated by the U.S. and the Ho-Chunk people were forcibly removed to a new reservation at Crow Creek, South Dakota. Later, the U.S. moved the Ho-Chunk again to their current reservation in Nebraska. There are two federally recognized Ho-Chunk tribes, the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.

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