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Winnebago   /wˌɪnəbˈeɪgoʊ/   Listen
Winnebago

noun
1.
A member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people.
2.
The Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago.





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"Winnebago" Quotes from Famous Books



... received from the Indians prior to the year last mentioned, of a lake of no great size, through which flowed a river discharging its waters into the Fresh Sea (Lake Huron). These were reports of Lake Winnebago and Fox river, in what is now the State of Wisconsin. As the French upon the St. Lawrence had no knowledge as yet of Lake Michigan, they imagined the location of this small lake, and its river was ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various


Words linked to "Winnebago" :   Siouan, Sioux, Siouan language


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