Join us for our next winter activity workshop: “Protection from the winter elements gauntlet gloves”. Learn more.


Building a Ciiporoke: A Teejop Experience
Join us as we build community around a ciiporoke. A Ho-Chunk dwelling, the ciiporoke has been a place of home, family, community, teaching, and learning at Teejop since beyond memory. Visit the ciiporoke, share a meal, swap stories, and share your ideas for Indigenous placemaking on campus. Together, we will think about placemaking and explore how UW-Madison spaces can be transformed into Indigenous places. Learn more.
Our Shared Future is more than a heritage marker
Our Shared Future represents UW–Madison’s commitment to respect the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the other First Nations of Wisconsin. It is a first step that calls on each of us—faculty, staff, and students—to deeply consider our shared past and present with Indigenous peoples in this place, Teejop, and to make our own personal and institutional commitments to achieve a shared future with them.
Our Shared Future is a process, not a land acknowledgement or something to recite. It is a collective act of moving together from ignorance to awareness; an educational framework for posing questions; and an opportunity to celebrate Ho-Chunk people, as well as learn about the hard truths of our histories with them. It is a challenge to educate ourselves and each other, and create a better future together.
In October of 2021, the marker was installed in its permanent location near South Hall on Bascom Hill.


Our Shared Future Efforts Mark the Beginning, Not an End
Hundreds of people attended events in the fall of 2019 related to the “Our Shared Future” heritage marker, a first step in a multi-year effort to educate the campus and the broader community on the Ho-Chunk Nation and the history it shares with the university. The spring 2020 semester brought an even greater emphasis on the marker.
News
- Building of Ho-Chunk structure on campus promotes awareness of Indigenous land historyNovember 4, 2022
- UW–La Crosse arts building named after former UW–Madison professorOctober 7, 2022
- Ho-Chunk Nation flag-raising symbolizes a shared futureSeptember 15, 2022
- Chancellor Mnookin meets with leaders in central WisconsinSeptember 9, 2022
Events
- February
- February 3
- February 324th Annual Evening of American Indian StorytellingAmerican Indian Studies7:00 PM, H.F. Deluca Forum, Discovery Building
Want your event to show up here? Tag related events with “Our Shared Future” when adding them to the UW’s event calendar.