atikameg

[< Algonk.: Cree]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a widely distributed North American food fish, Coregonus sp., especially C. clupeaformis.

Quotations

1665

. . . if once we could come to that place we should make good cheare of a fish that they call Assickmack, w^ch signifieth a white fish.

1760

The chief nourishment of the Michilimakinais was fish . . . such as . . . asticameque, or white fish.

1858

This important source of food in these regions is well named At-ik-um-aig.

1905

There is an excellent food fish in the lakes of that region--the white fish ("titimeg" or "atikameg" as the Crees called it). . . .

1909

From these deep cisterns he had seen the Indian fishermen take whitefish, the ahtikameg (deer-of-the-water), twenty pounds in weight. . . .