Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Around 1675, here in the tamarack swamps surrounding Milwaukee, the Potawatomi were
most likely to welcome Jesuit
voyageurs
and renegade beaver traders. The city's name pur-
portedly originates in an Algonquian language:
Mahn-a-waukee, Millioki,
and any number
of other conjectures have all been translated as, roughly, “gathering place by the waters,” a
fitting appellation.
