Editing Waverly, Iowa (section)

=== Indian reservation===
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The first permanent residents of Waverly were settled there against their will. Because of their alleged assistance given to Chief [[Black Hawk (chief)|Black Hawk]] during the [[Blackhawk War]] of 1832, the [[Ho-Chunk|Winnebago]] were forced to cede their lands east of the Mississippi and to move to Neutral Ground in what is now northeastern Iowa. They were to receive $270,000 ($10,000 per year for 27 years) and were required to surrender several of their tribesmen accused of murdering whites during the war. At that time there were three tribes living in the area, the Ho-Chunk numbering about 500, the Meskwaki numbering about 100 and the Pottawattomi numbering about 50.  With Iowa statehood in 1846, the Winnebago were moved again. In an 1845 treaty, the Winnebago exchanged their Iowa lands for the {{convert|800000|acre|km2|-2|adj=on}} Long Prairie (Crow Wing River) reserve in Minnesota and $190,000. In 1848, a detachment of United States troops from [[Fort Atkinson, Iowa]], came to enforce the removal. All told, between 1840 and 1863, the Winnebagoes were moved five times. They were pushed first to northeastern Iowa, then to Long Prairie, Minnesota, then to Blue Earth, Minnesota, then to Crow Creek, South Dakota. In 1865, after the constant upheaval cost 700 tribal members’ lives, the current Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska was established by the treaties of 1865 and 1874. The tribe lost more than two thirds of this land in the General Allotment Act of 1887. By 1913, only {{convert|120000|acre|km2|-1}} of cropland, woodland, and pasture remained. The tribe is federally recognized and organized under the 1934 [[Indian Reorganization Act]]. The Winnebago Tribe established a constitution in 1936 which was amended in 1968.