Getting to “Lake Michigan”: A 350-year Onomastic Odyssey Available to Purchase

Michael McCafferty is a linguist at Indiana University Bloomington and the French translator for the Miami-Illinois Digital Archive at Miami University, Ohio. His work focuses on the Algonquian-French “interface” in the Illinois Country and Wabash Valley and on the Miami-Illinois language. His many publications include definitive analyses of American Indian names such as “Wisconsin,” “Missouri,” “Des Moines,” “Peoria,” “Pimitéoui,” “Chicago,” and “Kankakee”. He is the author of Native American Place-Names of Indiana (2008).