County supports Ho-Chunk Nation land-into-trust application

Friday, January 25, 2013  

Supervisors in Shawano County, Wisconsin, voted 22-4 to support the Ho-Chunk Nation land-into-trust application.

The county previously opposed to the tribe's application for 44.39 acres. But supervisors agreed to withdraw their appeal with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and negotiate.

"We had kind of lost a little of the community spirit with them," supervisor Sandy Steinke, who chairs the county's Tribal Affairs Committee, said a a public meeting, The Shawano Leader reported. "They gave us the best offer, and they thought it was a gift, and we turned them down."

The tribe had offered $89,000 a year to the county. Property taxes on the land come to $1,194 a year.

Get the Story:
Shawano County withdraws trust land objection (The Shawano Leader 1/24)

County reconsiders stance on Ho-Chunk Nation land-into-trust (01/10)