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Term: oats, wild

Definition: literal English translation of the French term "folle avoine," but used for the plant that we call wild rice today.

[Source: Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/)]

42 records found

oakum (maritime)
oats, wild
obsidian
occident, occidentale (Fr.)
Oconomowoc Rifles (Civil War)
Oconto Irish Guards (Civil War)
Oconto River Drivers (Civil War)
octagon (architecture)
oilcloth (Civil War)
oiler (maritime)
Ojibwe Treaty of 1837
Ojibwe Treaty of 1842
Ojibwe Treaty of 1854
Old Abe, the War Eagle
Old Copper culture (archaeology)
Old World Wisconsin
Oneota tradition (archaeology)
Onontio
Ontonagan
Ordinance of 1787
Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis (Croix de
orient, orientale (Fr.)
orignal (Fr.)
oriniack (Fr.)
Orléans Island
Oscar Mayer Wiener Song
Osconston
Oshkosh Woodworkers' Strike (1898)
osier (farming)
ostensorium
Oubache
Ouinipegouek
Ouisconching
Ouisconsin
Oumalouminek
Ounepigon (Lake)
outboard (maritime)
Outdoor Recreation Act Program (ORAP)
Outehipoues
outing system
Over-run (logging)
Ozaukee Guards (Civil War)
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