Winnebago

[Rankin, Robert L]

Maybe the HNAI people had never tasted the H2O from E. Wisc.!!  NE OK ain't so great either.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of David Costa
Sent: Tue 2/2/2010 8:13 PM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Winnebago
 
According to HNAI 15: 706, "the name refers to the muddy water of  
their river (the lower course of the Fox River of Wisconsin plus Lake  
Winnebago), described by Cadillac as yearly becoming clogged with the  
rotting bodies of dead fish during the heat of the summer".

It still can't be as bad as the tap water in northeast Oklahoma.

Dave

>
> And if you've ever tasted the water in eastern Wisconsin you know  
> why it got its unflattering name.  It's permeated with iron  
> sulfide.  My wife grew up in Waukesha, so I've had plenty of chances  
> to buy bottled water there.
>
> Bob