Editing Calumet County, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The county's name originated from the word ''calumet'', the French name for the  [[ceremonial pipe]]s used by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in councils on the east shore of [[Lake Winnebago]].<ref name=NHHS69>{{cite book | title=Pioneer's Corner | author= Stories compiled and presented by the New Holstein Historical Society | pages = 69–70 }}</ref>

In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[New England]] to the southwest part of the county; these included the [[Brothertown Indians]], [[Oneida Indians]], and [[Stockbridge-Munsee]] Indians. This was a second migration for the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians, who had moved to New York after the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The Oneida shared land on their reservation with these peoples, who had been displaced by the years of colonization in New England, warfare and disease. 

Many of the early European residents in [[The Holyland (Wisconsin)|the Holyland region]] in the southern part of the county were emigrants from the [[Schleswig]]-[[Holstein]] region in [[Germany]] in the 1840s.

The county was legally organized on February 5, 1850, by Chapter 84 Laws of 1850.<ref name="Wulff">{{cite book|last=Wulff|first=Eugene C.|title=The New Holstein Story}}</ref>

Calumet County figures prominently in the 2015 Netflix television series ''[[Making a Murderer]]'', which documents the arrests and trials of [[Manitowoc County]] resident [[Steven Avery]], which involves from 2005 the Calumet sheriff's department and district attorney's office of [[Ken Kratz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5189670/|access-date=December 28, 2015|title=Making a Murderer (TV Series)|date=December 18, 2015|publisher=IMDb}}</ref>