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menominee†

[< Algonk.: Ojibwa. See 1907 quote]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See wild rice 1963 quote.

See: wild rice

Quotations

1744

[Above them [is] a small Lake called Malominis; upon the Sides of it grows a Kind of wild Oats, from which the Natives get plentiful Crops.]

1779

We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomen (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes), to support myself and seventeen men.

1905

[The last-named people are the Folles Avoines of the French narratives, and their river, still called the Menominee, reaches far into the rice-producing region.]

1907

[Menominee (meno, by change from mino, "good," "beneficent"; min, a "grain," "seed") the Chippewa name for the wild rice.]