Teejop 4x6 Postcard

Before settlers called it Madison, it’s called Teejop (day-jope) by the Ho Chunk. Each of our four lakes in the area were named by settlers using various indigenous names including words from Dakota, Sauk-Fox, and Ojibwa. Of course, the Ho Chunk people did indeed already have names for the great bodies of water. In the Ho Chunk language Hoocąk, Teejop means four lakes.

Read more:

historicmadison.org/originalnames

tribalrelations.wisc.edu/dejope/

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