While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
As the Chippewa were scattered over a region
extending 1,000 miles from north to west, they had a large number
of villages, bands, and local divisions. Some of the bands bore the name
of the village, lake, or river near which they resided, but these were
grouped under larger divisions or sub-tribes which occupied certain
fixed limits and were distinguished by marked differences. According to
Warren there were 10 of these principal divisions:
Kechegunmewininewug, on the south shore of Lake Superior;
Betonukeengainubejig, in North Wisconsin;
Munominikasheenhug, on the headwaters of St Croix river in Wisconsin and
Minnesota;
Wahsuahgunewininewug, at the head of Wisconsin river;
Ottawa Lake Men, on Lac Courte Oreilles, Wis.;
Kechesebewininewug, on the upper Mississippi in Minnesota;
Mukmeduawininewug, or Pillagers, on Leech lake, Minn.;
Sugwaundugahwininewug, north of Lake Superior;
Kojejewininewug, on Rainy lake and river about the north boundary of
Minnesota; Omushkasug, on the northwest side of Lake Superior at the
Canadian border.
Besides these general divisions the following
collective or local names are recognized as belonging to various
settlements, bands, or divisions of the tribe:
Lower Michigan
Angwassag
Big Rock
Little Forks
Menitegow
Blackbird
Menoquet's Village
Ketchewaundaugenink
Kawkawling
Kishkawbawee
Saginaw
Thunder Bay
Nagonabe
Ommunise
Shabwasing
Beaver Islands
Nabohish
Cheboygan
Otusson
Reaum's Village
Wapisiwisibiwininiwak
Wisconsin and upper Michigan
Red Cedar Lake
Sukaauguning
Knife Lake
Kechepukwaiwah
Long Lake
Chetac Lake
Turtle Portage
Rice Lake
Yellow Lake
Trout Lake
Pawating
Ontonagon
Wauswagiming
Lac Courte Oreilles
Shaugwaumikong
Burnt Woods
Gatageteganning
Bay du Noc
Wequadong
Mekadewagamitigweyawininwak
Michilimackinac
St Francis Xavier
Wiaquahhechegumeeng
Minnesota and the Dakotas
Grand Portage
Pokegma
Fund du Lac
Red Cliff
Crow Wing River
Gull Lake
Onepowesepewenenewak
Miskwagamiwisagaigan
Wabasemowenenewak(?)
Wanamakewajenerik
