[176] From Aizhenagozze, countenance, and kozh, a bill of a bird, or snout of an animal. The word is appropriately translated guelle by the Canadians.
[177] Equa, a female; it is not, appropriately, the term of wife, for which the vocabulary has a peculiar term, but is generally employed in the sense of woman.
[178] I have observed this to be the universal custom among all the aboriginal females of America. They never part the feet.
[179] It is hoped, hereafter, to give further sketches of this interview, and of this chief's life and character.
[180] Called by the French Crees.
[181] The Fore-standing man. From the verb maja, to go, ninabow, I stand, and izzee, a person or man.
[182] For an account of this transaction, vide Reports of the Disputes between the Earl of Selkirk and the Northwest Company, at the assizes held at York, Upper Canada, Oct. 1818. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 664. Montreal, Casie & Mower, 1819.
[183] From ininéeg, men, and sugiegan, lake, signs of a war party having been discovered at this place. In this derivative, the usual transition of n to l of the old Algonquin is made.
[184] Professor D. B. Douglas.
[185] The angle of country above Leaf River, on the Crow-Wing, has been proposed as a refuge for the Menomonee tribe, of Wisconsin, for whom temporary arrangements, at least, are now made, on the head of Fox River, of that State.