Editing Madison, Wisconsin (section)

===Native Americans===
Before Europeans, humans inhabited the area in and around Madison for about 12,000 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A History of Madison |url=https://morgridge.wiscweb.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/02/History_of_Madison.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221134602/https://morgridge.wiscweb.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/02/History_of_Madison.pdf |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |access-date=December 20, 2018 |website=morgridge.wiscweb.wisc.edu}}</ref> The [[Ho-Chunk]] called the region Teejop (pronounced Day-JOPE [J as in Jump]) meaning "land of the four lakes" (Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, and Kegonsa).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teejop (Dejope): significance and history |url=https://tribalrelations.wisc.edu/dejope/ |access-date=December 4, 2023 |website=Tribal Relations |language=en-US}}</ref> Numerous [[effigy mounds]], constructed for ceremonial and burial purposes more than 1,000 years earlier, dotted the rich prairies around the lakes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 27, 2012 |title=Life in Early Madison |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2904 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221041537/https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2904 |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |access-date=December 20, 2018 |website=Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.channel3000.com/madison-magazine/home-and-lifestyle/the-story-of-madison-s-indigenous-people/article_b0e24a81-4ddd-502e-9034-1fa1d9a0b68c.html|title=The story of Madison's indigenous people|first=Maggie|last=Ginsberg|website=Channel3000.com|date=November 19, 2015 }}</ref> Dugout canoes found near many small lakes and rivers are prompting new anthropological research projects.<ref>Kehoe, Jacqueline, ''[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-using-sunken-dugout-canoes-learn-indigenous-history-america-180985638/ Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt]'', Smithsonian, January-February 2025 </ref>