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!
Ontonagon, A Chippewa band formerly living on Ontonagon r. in upper
Michigan. Regarding the origin of the name, Baraga (Otchipwe Diet., 295, 1882)
says: "The proper meaning of this word is `my dish.' An Indian tradition says
that a squaw once carne to the river, now called ' Ondonagan,' to fetch water
with an Indian earthen dish, but the dish escaped from her hand and went to the
bottom of the river, whereupon the poor squaw began to lament: nid nind ondgan,
nind ondyan! Ah, my dish, my dish!
