prairie - plains

[Alan Hartley]

Alfred W. Tüting wrote:

> I wonder why the French term 'prairie' wasn't adopted, since the
> Natives' relationship with the early French immigrants were comparably
> close (maybe due to their intimate contacts as e.g. trappers, with
> intermarriages etc. - cf. Native last names like Peltier, Deloria <- Des
> Lauriers).

La Prairie is an Ojibway surname, at least in northern Minnesota.

Alan