Decorah, One-Eyed, 1772?-1864, Ho-Chunk chief | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Decorah, One-Eyed, 1772?-1864, Ho-Chunk chief

Decorah, One-Eyed, 1772?-1864, Ho-Chunk chief | Wisconsin Historical Society
Dictionary of Wisconsin History.

grandson of Glory of the Morning (son of The Buzzard ), he succeeded his father as a chief of the LaCrosse Ho-Chunk band after about 1787; settled them in Black River Falls; aided Americans during the Black Hawk War.

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[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960).]