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    What did the Native American Indians call Lake Superior?

    Question #85254. Asked by star_gazer. (Sep 02 07 8:39 PM)


    ak2

    		In the Ojibwe language, the lake is called "Gichigami" ("big water"), but it is better known as "Gitche Gumee" as recorded by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in The Song of Hiawatha.

    Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior#Name



    Sep 02 07, 9:10 PM
    star_gazer

    		Did Longfellow make a mistake?

    He certainly did in "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".

    Sep 02 07, 10:08 PM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		The name Michigan looks strangely similar to Gichigami...

    "Michigan (roughly MISH-uh-gun) is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located in the east north central portion of the country. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name was a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigami, meaning "large water" or "large lake"."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

    Sep 03 07, 12:19 AM

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