1194 WILD RICE GATHERERS OF UPPER LAKES [ETH. ANN. 19 
a Psah L{ake\ just north of the Minnesota river where /?7ce marshes 
were located on earlier maps. Coues explains that 27ce River near 
Brainer county, Minnesota, is the Nagajika creek of Nicollet.’ Big 
Rice River and a Little Rice River, in Oneida county, Wisconsin, 
discharge their waters into the Wisconsin river. 
Jo Daviess county, Illinois, has a Big Menominee creek, which is a 
tributary of the Mississippi river at ‘*‘ Nine-mile island” or ** Number 
232,” and this creek is also fed by a smaller one called Little Menominee 
ereek. 
A Rice creek discharges into Kalamazoo river at Marshail, Michigan. 
It is believed that the following bodies of water, mostly lakes, receive 
their names from wild rice. Their location is given as accurately as is 
possible, but no claim is made for the identification and exact location 
of all the places previously named in this chapter, in consequence of 
which some of them may be unavoidably repeated in the present list: 
Poygan Lake, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, from the Menomini 
word powahécinné, or ** threshing [wild-rice].” 
Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada, between lake Simcoe and Quinto bay. 
Rice Lake, Newago county, Michigan, Grant township. 
Rice Lake, the head of Shell river, a tributary of the St Croix, is 
given by Warren, History of the Ojibways, p. 164. 
Rice Lake, Forest county, Wisconsin, township 35, range 12, near 
Crandon. 
Rice Lake, Forest county, Wisconsin, township 35, range 11, near 
Crandon. 
Rice Lake, Oneida county, Wisconsin, township 36, range 7 east 
(Pocketbook Map of Oneida, Vilas, and range + of Iron counties, Wis- 
consin, E. S. Shepard, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, [circa 1898]). 
Big Rice Lake, Oneida county, Wisconsin, township 36, range 6 
east (ibid.). 7 
Rice Lake, Vilas county, Wisconsin, township 41, range 8 east (ibid.). 
Rice Lake,Vilas county, Wisconsin, township 39, range 10 east (ibid.). 
Rice Lake, Vilas county, Wisconsin, township 42, range 7 east (ibid.). 
Scattering Rice Lake, on line between Forest and Vilas counties. It 
is drained by the Wisconsin river (ibid.). 
Little Rice Lake, Vilas county, Wisconsin, between the triangle of 
lakes, Boulder lake, Fish Trap lake, and Trout lake. ?ce creck is 
connected with Big lake, which lies immediately west of Little Rice 
lake (Map of the Famous Hunting and Fishing Grounds embraced in 
the Lake Region of Michigan, Poole Bros., Chicago, 1895). 
Rice Lake, Polk county, Wisconsin, Alden township (Polk County 
Plat Book, 1888). 
Rice Lake, Polk county, Wisconsin, Milltown township (ibid.). 
Rice Lake, Polk county, Wisconsin, West Sweden township (ibid.). 

1 Coues, Pike, note 41, p. 181. 
