Filmed on Tuesday, August 15 2023, I drive around the village Tomah, WI to see what's going on.

Tomah is named after Thomas Carson, a trader at Green Bay who had integrated into the Menominee tribe. The Menominees pronounced the name Tomah or Tomau and he became known as Chief Tomah.

In 1891, construction began in Tomah for a Native American residential school funded by the federal government. The Tomah Indian Industrial School opened in 1893 with six Ho-Chunk children as its first students and would become the most significant residential school in Wisconsin. The curriculum was designed to assimilate students into white American culture, and children were forcibly removed from their families and sent to the school from as far away as North Dakota and Oklahoma. The school operated until 1941.

As of the census of 2020, the population was 9,570.

The racial makeup of the city was 85.8% White, 3.2% Black or African American, 2.1% Native American, 1.5% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.6% from other races, and 5.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.7% of the population.

The median income for a household in the city was $51,304, and the per capita income for the city was $31,656. About 6.7% of the population were below the poverty line.

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