The
Winnebago War was a brief conflict that took place in
1827 in the
Upper Mississippi River region of the United States, primarily in what is now the state of
Wisconsin. Not quite a war, the hostilities were limited to a few attacks on American civilians by a portion of the Winnebago (or
Ho-Chunk)
Native American tribe. The Ho-Chunks were reacting to a wave of
lead miners trespassing on their lands, and to false rumors that the United States had sent two Ho-Chunk prisoners to a rival tribe for execution.