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American Indian legacy largely ignored on campus

The exchanges between students sitting in the O and P sections of Camp Randall during football games in the fall and the treaties negotiated between American Indians and British colonists in the eighteenth century may have more in common than one initially perceives. Indeed, the land that currently bears the name Camp Randall was originally American Indian property. Furthermore, the exchanges between colonists and indigenous peoples probably included a few choice words.