Well Damn, I Never Thought This Tiny Colleve Town Had Such A Violent History
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UPdate 18 April 2023: This post used to be in two so I mushed them together.
I remember working on a post a couple years ago and I needed to research my college town so I headed to it’s Wikipedia page and this was the first sentence under the history section,
The first permanent residents of Waverly were settled there against their will. Because of their alleged assistance given to Chief Black Hawk during the Blackhawk War of 1832, the Winnebago were forced to cede their lands east of the Mississippi and to move to Neutral Ground in what is now northeastern Iowa.
Well damn. I wonder what the rival college’s city’s history is like:
Decorah was the site of a Ho-Chunk village beginning circa 1840. Several Ho-Chunks had settled along the Upper Iowa River that year when the U.S. Army forced them to remove from Wisconsin. In 1848, the United States removed the Ho-Chunks again to a new reservation in Minnesota, opening their Iowa villages to white settlers.
God damn it.
Understanding this explains a lot about that part of Iowa. It’s not something I would otherwise bother looking up.
From Parks and Recreation Season 3 Episode 7 “Harvest Festival”
As for the video I was researching, all I can say is that it’s about taxes [VIDEO: 8:12, Playlist Linked].