Note 90 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 3)
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The Menominee Indians were called Folles-Avoines by the French, a name by which the latter designated both the grain (zizania aquatica), and this tribe of Indians whom they first found using it. They are Algonquian in language, and were originally encountered by Nicolet (1634) on the shores of Green Bay. This remained their habitat until they were removed to their present reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin. For history of this tribe, see Wisconsin Historical Collections (especially vols. xvi and xvii); Hoffman, “Menomini Indians,” U. S. Bureau of Ethnology Report, 1892–93; Jenks, “Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes,” ibid., 1897–98.
No mention of such a barbarous custom as this is made by other writers. Long may have been misinformed.—Ed.