 The first human inhabitants of the area arrived about 12,000 years ago. They were kind of following large game here. And then there have been a number of indigenous nations here over the years. Some kind of developed in this area and a lot of others migrated into the area. So that by the end of the 1700s, the Milwaukee area had 4,000 people living here already, various Pottawatomie villages and other villages as well.