MASCOUTIN

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, David Costa wrote:
> No -- the Mascoutin (AKA Mascouten) were a tribe who almost certainly spoke
> a subdialect of the Sauk/Fox/Kickapoo language. They lost their identity as
> a separate tribe when they merged with the Kickapoo in the early 19th
> century.

Isn't there a long history of confusion on this score connected with
alternate etymologies of Mascoutin, "People of the Fire/Prarie" and
application of one of these names (the latter?) to the Potawatomi?  I
remember the ingredients, as it were, but not the details.