TENE] WILD-RICE CITIES Ds? 
Crries, STATIONS, ETC 
Indian villages are very often situated at such places as are best also 
for the villages of early settlers, as the head of tidal waters and the 
falls of rivers, where there is a natural stopping place, because there 
boats must be unloaded and portaged, and there also fish for food are 
usually plentiful. Besides these reasons, which appeal to both the 
Indian and the white man, the latter finds there necessary water power. 
Fertile grassy valleys and elevated table-lands bring to both the Indian 
and white man valuable advantages forasettlement. The Indian seeks 
to locate his village in a place of safety near his food supply. The sites 
of a vast number of our present American cities were previously covered 
with the village dwellings of the Indian, and a number of these places 
still bear their earlier Indian names. Many such villages were named 
from the presence of wild rice. 
North Dakota claims a We/d Rice station and a Riceville station, 
both in Cass county. 
In Michigan, Menominee county has a Jenom/nee station and also a 
Menominee River station, while Calhoun county has a Rice Crech station 
anda ice Lake station. 
In Ontario, Canada, there is a Menomonee station on Parry sound. 
Jo Daviess county, Illinois, has a J/enominee station on Big Menom- 
inee creek. 
In the preceding chapter it was noticed that the Indians about the 
St Croix and Chippewa rivers received their name from the abun- 
dance of wild rice in their vicinity, and Carver presented a map in 
1766-68 which located Rice Village of the Ojibwa Indians along the 
east shore of the St Croix river. 
According to a map made at the opening of the nineteenth century ! 
there was a Menomonies castle on Fox river, near its mouth, at Green 
bay, and a Menomonie town on the west side of the bay. 
Schooleraft, about the year 1820,” mentions two ‘*Indian Spring 
villages,” Great Rice Place and Little Rice Place, on the Namakgum 
[Nemacagon] river, a southern tributary of the St Croix. These 
villages were probably in Washburn county, Wisconsin. 
In 1836 a map* presents five Mennomonie villages on the west shore 
of Green bay, besides one Mennomonie village on Big Mennomonie 
river [Menominee river], and another J/enonnomonie village on Fox 
river, a short way from its mouth, another at the head of Lake Win- 
nebago, and still another farther to the east. Probably one of the 
above villages is presented in 1837 as Menominieville on Fox river.* 

1Map, A. Arrowsmith, London, 1796; additions, 1802. 
2Schoolecraft, Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes . . . p.369. 
8The Tourist’s Pocket Map of Michigan . . . by Mitchell, 1836. 
4Topographical Map of Wisconsin Territory .. . by Lyttle, 1837. 
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