Brothertown, Wisconsin | |
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Coordinates: 43°58′05″N88°18′32″W / 43.96806°N 88.30889°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Wisconsin |
County | Calumet |
Town | Brothertown |
Elevation | 250 m (810 ft) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 920 |
GNIS feature ID | 1562251 [1] |
Brothertown is an unincorporated community located in the town of Brothertown, Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States. [1]
It was originally settled by the Brothertown Indians under the name Eeyamquittoowauconnuck. [2] The tribe gave up its federal recognition in order to avoid relocation and much of the land was eventually settled by German immigrants. [2]
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Samson Occom was a member of the Mohegan nation, from near New London, Connecticut, who became a Presbyterian cleric. Occom was the second Native American to publish his writings in English, the first Native American to write down his autobiography, and also helped found several settlements, including what ultimately became known as the Brothertown Indians. Together with the missionary John Eliot, Occom became one of the foremost missionaries who cross-fertilised Native American communities with Christianized European culture.
The Brothertown Indians, located in Wisconsin, are a Native American tribe formed in the late 18th century from communities of so-called "praying Indians", descended from Christianized Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, Tunxis, Niantic, and Mohegan (Algonquian-speaking) tribes of southern New England and eastern Long Island, New York. In the 1780s after the American Revolutionary War, they migrated from New England into New York state, where they accepted land from the Iroquois Oneida Nation in Oneida County.
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Calumetville is an unincorporated community that straddles the county line between Calumet and Fond du Lac counties in Wisconsin. The main part of the community in Fond du Lac County lies in the town of Calumet, and the part in Calumet County lies in the town of Brothertown.
Chief Oshkosh was a chief of the Menominee Native Americans, recognized as the leader of the Menominee people by the United States government from August 7, 1827, until his death. He was involved in treaty negotiations as the United States sought to acquire more of the Menominee tribe's land in Wisconsin and Michigan for both white settlers and relocated Oneida, Stockbridge, Munsee, and Brothertown Indians. During his tenure as head chief, the Menominee ceded over 10,000,000 acres of land to the United States. However, Oshkosh resisted U.S. government pressure for the tribe to relocate to northern Minnesota and played a key role in securing the 235,524-acre (953.13 km2) Menominee Indian Reservation as a permanent home for his people on their ancestral land.
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Charlesburg is an unincorporated community in the town of Brothertown in Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States.
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William Fowler was a Native American politician and the first non-white legislator in Wisconsin. He served in the 1845 session of the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory, representing Calumet County and other northeastern counties, and was later treasurer of Calumet County. During the American Civil War, he volunteered for service in the Union Army and died of wounds he received at the Battle of Perryville in 1862.
Joshua Hayward Haight was an American merchant from Brothertown, Wisconsin who served one term as a Greenback Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Calumet County, Wisconsin.
Thomas Commuck was an American composer and historian. His 1845 collection Indian Melodies has been described as the first published musical work by a Native American.
Alonzo David Dick was a Brothertown Indian farmer, tavernkeeper, and postmaster from Brothertown, Wisconsin,. As a member of the Whig Party, he served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Calumet County.
William H. Dick was a Brothertown Indian farmer, carpenter and politician who served two terms, 20 years apart, in the Wisconsin State Assembly.