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/wˌɪnəbˈeɪgoʊ/ Listen

Winnebago

noun

A member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people.

The Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago.

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"Winnebago" Quotes from Famous Books

... route by Chicago and Galena to St Louis, but I fell in with Major F—-, with whom I had been previously acquainted, who informed me that he was about to send a detachment of troops from Green Bay to Fort Winnebago, across Wisconsin territory. As this afforded me an opportunity of seeing the country, which seldom occurs, I availed myself of an offer to join the party. The detachment consisted of about one hundred recruits, nearly the whole of them ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... name. As we descended into the prairie we were struck with the novelty and beauty of the prospect which lay before us. The ground sank gradually and gently into a low but immense basin, in the midst of which lies the marshy tract called the Winnebago Swamp. To the northeast the sight was intercepted by a forest in the midst of the basin, but to the northwest the prairies were seen swelling up again in the smoothest slopes to their usual height, and stretching away to a distance so vast that ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

Words linked to "Winnebago" : Sioux, Siouan, Siouan language