JENKS] WILD-RICE RIVERS aby 
Rice Lake discharges its waters into the Mississippi by a short thor- 
oughfare in section 24, township 146 north, range 35 west in Min- 
nesota.' 
In 1879 Aitkin county, Minnesota, had three A/ce lakes northeast 
of Mille Lacs. In one place the northernmost one is called Manoman, 
while again the westernmost one is Janomin.* 
Coues speaks* of the Pinnidiwin or Carnag or De Sota river. It is 
the west branch of the source of the Mississippi, and flows through 
Lake La Folle, Rice, or Manomin. Wand and McNally now call this 
waterway Lake Monomina. Schooleraft speaks of the lake as Lac 
la Folle, and Monomina from Monominakauning (place of wild rice).* 
The Mississippi also drains Manomin L{ake] between Wakomite 
ereek and ‘Cow Horn,” north of Itasca lake.? There was also a Pice 
river flowing into the Mississippi from the east, a short distance above 
St. Paul, in 1856.° It is called Rice crech in 1874, while Coues later 
calls it Rice or Manomin crieek).' 
Neill mentioned Otonwewakpadan or 2/ce creck in Minnesota as one 
of the two places where, traditionally, the Dakota first planted maize.* 
The same writer in translating the French author of the Memoir of 
the Sioux spoke of Wildrice Lake 15 leagues below Riviere au Serp- 
ent (Snake river), Minnesota. It may be the present Rice Lake in 
northeastern Anoka county. Dr Morse mentions Pauc-quau-ime-no- 
min-ic-con or Rice Lake as being 20 or 25 miles south of Sandy lake, 
Aitkin county, Minnesota.” 
Coues says that a feeder of Sandy lake near Leech lake, Minnesota, 
which flows in at the southernmost end is called **Sandy, Sandy Lake, 
or Rice Lake R{iver|”. This river has a branch from Manomin or 
Rice Lake, and either the branch or the entire river is the Jenomeny- 
sibi or Wild Oats river of Beltrami, according to Coues."* Rice Lake 
in Little Falls township, Morrison county, Minnesota, is fed by Rice 
ercck and discharges into the Mississippi by way of the Platte river.” 
In the year 1856 a Rice- Lake was drained by Le Suer [Le Sueur] 
river into Minnesota river from the south.” Seven years prior to this 
the lake is called Psah Lf{ake] and is drained by Psah R{zver| into 
Le Sueur river and then into the Minnesota. The same map ‘* presents 


1Coues, Botanical Gazette, December, 1894, p. 506. 
2Map, Department of the Interior, General Land Office, state of Minnesota, 1879. 
’Coues, Pike, vol. 1, p. 163, note. 
4Schooleraft, Summary Narrative, pp. 248, 249. 
5 Minnesota Historical Collections, vol. v111, part 2 (1896), p. 236, pl. Ty. 
© Map of southern Minnesota and part of Wisconsin, by Harris, Cowles & Co. (Boston, 1856) . 
7Coues, Pike, note 6, p. 94. 
® Neill, Indian Trade, in Minnesota Historical Society's Collections, vol. I, p. 32. 
© Morse, Report, appendix, p. 35. 
WCoues, Pike, note 49, p. 137. 
1 Morrison County Plat Book, 1892. 
12Map of southern Minnesota by Harris, Cowles & Co., Boston, 1896. 
18 Map of the Territory of Minnesota, exhibiting route of the expedition to the Red river of the 
north, 1849, by John Pope. 
