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This land is their land: UW-Madison grapples with Wisconsin’s ugly treatment of the Ho-Chunk

Posted on July 9, 2025

UW–Madison was built on land where the Ho-Chunk people lived for at least 12,000 years before white settlers forced them out. The university is trying to acknowledge this painful history with the Our Shared Future …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged campus history, First Nations, Ho-Chunk, Ho-Chunk dedication, Native history

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