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Wisconsin wasn’t a state in 1776. What did life look like here 250 years ago?

“Those included people who have lived in what we call Wisconsin for time immemorial,” University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor John Hall said, including the Ojibwe, Dakota, Menominee and Ho Chunk. It also included the Sauk and Meskwaki, who were not indigenous but had migrated over the preceding century.