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!
Chauvignerie gives their
principal totems as the
Large-tailed Bear, the
Stag, and the
Kilou (a sort of eagle).
Neill (Hist. Minn., 1858) classes the Menominee,
evidently on French authority, as Folles Avoines of the Chat and Orignal
or Wild Moose and Elk. Hoffman gives the modern totems as follows:
1. The Owa'sse wi'dishi'anun, or Bear phratry, consisting of the following
totems and sub-phratries: Owa'sse (Bear), Miqkä'no
(Mud-turtle), Kitä'mi (Porcupine),
with the Namä'nu (Beaver) and O'sass
(Muskrat) and sub-phratries.
II. The Kině'uv
wi'dishi'anun, or Eagle phratry, consisting of the following totems: Pinäsh'iu
(Bald Eagle), Kaka'k (Crow), Inä'qtěk
(Raven), Ma'qkuana'ni (Red-tail Hawk), Hinanä'shiuv
(Golden Eagle), Pe'niki'konau (Fish-hawk).
III. The Otä'tshia wi'dishi'anun, or
Crane phratry, consisting of the following totems: Otä'tshia
(Crane), Shakshak'eu (Great Heron), Os'se ("Old Squaw" Duck), O'kawa'siku
(Coot).
IV. The Moqwai'o wi'dishi'anun, or Wolf phratry, consisting of the
following totems: Moqwai'o (Wolf), "Hana" [(änä'm]
(Dog), Apaq'ssos (Deer).
V. The Mons wi'dishi'anun, or Moose phratry, with the following totems: Mōns
(Moose), Oma'skos (Elk), Wabä'skos
(Marten), Wū'tshik (Fisher).
