1871-1930
Land and Resources
With the industrial era in full swing, the land and resources of North America were under the threat of awesome developmental pressures. Massive logging and mining operations decimated virgin land in the Great Lakes and surrounding territories, transforming the landscape forever, in order to support the westward expansion of European and American settlers and build urban centers like Chicago. In the latter years of this era, economic depression demanded a return to subsistence gathering and the development of a tourism industry in Northern Wisconsin. This era also includes early legal disputes over established treaty rights as tribal members are harassed in their everyday hunting and gathering activities and forced to take their to state and federal courts.