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Search Results for: Keyword: 'lac du flambeau'

Term: Lac du Flambeau [origin of place name]

Definition: Lac du Flambeau, in Chippewa, is Wasswagani-Sagaigan, meaning torch lake, from "wassawagan" (a torch).

[Source: Card file at the WHS Library reference desk]

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Dubay [Dube), John Baptiste 1810 - 1887
Flambeau, Town of, Vilas Co.
Gaulke, Ellsworth K. 1925
Indian schools in Wisconsin
Lac du Flambeau (Historic Marker Erected 1956)
Lac du Flambeau Reservation
Lac du Flambeau [origin of place name]
Lac du Flambeau, Town of, Vilas Co.
Lac du Flambeau, Vilas Co.
Ladysmith [brief history]
Ojibwe Indians
Ojibwe Treaty of 1854
The Bad River (Historic Marker Erected 1957)
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1784-1835
Warren, Lyman Marquis 1794 - 1847
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