Fox Islands corpus record: historicalstatis03scho, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox islands in a scanned Internet Archive volume, historicalstatis03scho_djvu, which the index carries undated. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Lake Michigan and Michigan. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

e southern shore of Lake Erie. They are supposed to have been confederates of the Eries, and to have been conquered and expelled in the general result of their war with the Iroquois. Aniez. — A name which the French bestowed upon the Mohawks; agreeably to Colden. Annacioris. — One of the original tribes of Brazil. Annamosing. — The name of the Chippewa and Ottowa tribes for the Fox islands of Lake Michigan. The word means “place of the little dog.” It is, simply, the diminutive and local forms united, added to the elementary term for a dog. Annimikeens. — Little Thunder; from animik and ens, the diminutive inflection. A hunter of a bold and enterprising character, of the mixed blood of Red river, in the North-west, who survived a conflict with a grizzly bear, in whi

Scope and limits

A mention is not an event. Where a held source supports one, a curated article under event/ carries the claim and this record is only its evidence. Deduplication here suppresses byte-identical bodies alone, so a second OCR edition of the same page is still a second record. The name is not unique to Michigan either, which is why the audit tests for a local cue at all. Read the cited source before you cite it.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes