Kewaskum is a village in Washington and Fond du Lac counties in Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,004 at the 2010 census. All of this population resided in the Washington County ration of the village. The village is mostly amid the Town of Kewaskum.

Kewaskum was the leader of a intervention of Potawatomi Native Americans who lived in Washington County in the 1840s. He was kind with the upfront settlers, including far ahead Wisconsin let in senator Densmore Maxon. He died sometime together with 1847 and 1850. In 1849, the upfront settlers named the Town of Kewaskum (and progressive the village) in his honor. In the Potawatomi language, Kewaskum means “turning back upon his tracks” or “retracing his steps.”

In the in advance 19th century, the Kewaskum Place was house to Potawatomi Native Americans, who surrendered the land the United States Federal Government in the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which required them to depart Wisconsin by 1838. While many Potawatomis moved west of the Mississippi River to Kansas, some chose to remain, and were referred to as “strolling Potawatomi” in contemporary documents because many of them were migrants who subsisted by squatting on their ancestral lands, which were now owned by white settlers. One band of strolling Potawatomi travelled through Dodge, Jefferson, and Washington counties, and was led by Chief Kewaskum, who had a camp upon Pike Lake. The chief was kind with the white settlers who began arriving in the 1840s. He died sometime surrounded by 1847 and 1850, but itinerant Potawatomis lived in Washington County into the late 19th century, when many of them gathered in northern Wisconsin to form the Forest County Potawatomi Community.

The first settlers in the Place were the Barnes family, who arrived in 1844 and began farming close the complex village. In 1847, the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature created the Town of North Bend from estate that had past been part of the Town of West Bend, and the community’s first publicize office was established. In 1849, the residents tainted their community’s name to the “Town of Kewaskum” to distinguish it from neighboring West Bend.