MASCOUTIN

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>:
>
> 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.
>
>

Exactly, John. Early scholars misidentified the Mascouten and this
misidentification persisted until 1972 when Ives brought out his "Historical
and Philological Evidence Regarding the Identification of the Mascouten”
(Ethnohistory 19, no.2 (1972): 123-34).

I have to be somewhere in two minutes, but I'll fill this in later.

Michael