1126 WILD RICE GATHERERS OF UPPER LAKES [ETH ANN, 19 
Rice Lake, Wright county, Minnesota, Franklin township (ibid.). 
Big Rice Lake, Cass county, Minnesota (ibid.). 
Rice Lake, Wennepin county, Minnesota, Eden Prairie township 
(ibid.). 
Wild Rice Lake, St. Louis county, Minnesota, northeast of Duluth 
(ibid.). 
Rice Lake, St. Louis county, Minnesota (ibid.). 
Rice L., «pond more than 1 mile long, at the north end of Little 
Lake Winnibigoshish (Coues, Pike, vol. 1, note, p. 325). 
Rice Lake, ov Lake Ann, an expansion of Brown creek [Minnehaha] 
(ibid., note 4, p. 90). 
Rice L., near Pokegama, Minnesota (ibid., note 54, p. 147). 
This chapter presents over one hundred and sixty places which have 
borne a name synonymous with wild rice. Of these some few are 
doubtless duplicates, though great care has been exercised to ayoid 
such." 
When it is called to mind how the North American Indians and 
those following them were led to name a certain place by its charaec- 
teristic product, a better perspective is obtained for viewing the 
importance of wild rice as a food-supply during the period of aborig- 
inal production. 
After a cursory comparative study it is believed that more geo- 
graphic names have been derived from wild rice in this relatively 
small section of North America than from any other natural vegetal 
product throughout the entire continent. 
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1 The material for this chapter has been collected from books, maps, and atlases. It is often impos- 
sible to locate the places mentioned in the first class of sources. Old maps are not detailed or 
authentic enough for strict accuracy. The counties of northern Wiseonsin and Minnesota have not 
been surveyed so that accurate county atlases may be made, while in all of the States which grow 
wild rice few atlases have been made. Inasmuch as it is the smaller lakes and ponds which bear 
wild rice most abundantly, there are many bodies of water locally bearing a name for wild rice 
which the present maps do not show. 
