Editing Vilas County, Wisconsin (section)

===Native Americans===
[[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] have lived in what is now Vilas County for thousands of years. The county contains archaeological sites dating to the prehistoric [[Woodland period]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chapman |first1=Valerie M. |title=Detailed archaeological analysis of LDF-030D (47Vi257) of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Vilas County, Wisconsin |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/36631 |access-date=July 10, 2022 |date=May 2008}}</ref> In the eighteenth century, the area was disputed by the [[Dakota people|Dakota]] and [[Ojibwe]] people. According to oral histories, the conflict culminated in Ojibwe victory in a battle on Strawberry Island in [[Flambeau Lake]] around 1745.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Entz |first1=Gary |title=Strawberry Island: The Heart of Lac du Flambeau |url=https://www.wxpr.org/arts-life/2019-01-23/strawberry-island-the-heart-of-lac-du-flambeau |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=WXPR |date=January 23, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Ojibwe people have continued to live in the area ever since, securing the [[Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa|Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation]] in the [[Treaty of La Pointe#1854 Treaty of La Pointe|1854 Treaty of La Pointe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://ldftribe.com/pages/2/About-Us/ |website=Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians |access-date=July 10, 2022}}</ref>