The Winnebagos (from the term Winipig, people next to the Dirty Water), they were a tribe of Indians of America, belonging to the family linguistic Sioux, once appropriated to west of the lake Michigan. They were sedentary agriculturists. Between their divinity and supernatural beings, to which make offers, there are the Creator of the Earth, the Distributor of Illnesses, the Sun, the Moon, the Stella of the Morning, the Spirit of the Night, the bird of the Thunder, the Turtle and the Great Rabbit. The tribe has divided in two parts, the superior or people of the air and the subordinate or people of the earth. Generally they were pacific with the white farmers and during the war of independence and the 1812 war, the Winnebagos you/they had allied some English. Between 1829 and 1866, the white forced at least seven times the Winnebagos to abandon their earths to move elsewhere, but subsequently you/they could take back him her and a small group he/she still lives there. Some Winnebagos were united to Black Hawk in his/her 1832 war. Subsequently you/they had moved to the region of the Blue Earth River in the Minnesota. Today around 800 Winnebagos they live in their reserve of the County of Thurston in Nebraska.
