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Packer Legend
In 1695, the Potawatomi Indians migrated to Chicago from Green Bay looking for better soil and longer growing seasons. One faction of the Potawatomi, the Packers, settled in the area known as Wildwood. The Packers were named after the French word Pac, meaning mocassin, due to the unusual footwear they possessed. (Hence, the Green Bay Packers) The Wildwood Packers were overly aggressive and highly skilled warriors.
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Street History
Pierre Alphonse de Tonty was born in 1659 to Laurent and Angelique (de Liette) de Tonty. Tonty was the Captain of Cadillac's party which founded Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit in 1701.
Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit (named for King Louis' Minister of Marine - some say Louis de Ponchartrain).
Leoti is an Indian word that means "Prairie Flower", perhaps like this cactus flower.
The Chicora Indians were the aboriginal dwellers of South Carolina.
Céloron de Blainville, Pierre Joseph de , 1693–1759, French Canadian soldier, b. Montreal. He was commandant at Michilimackinac (1734–42), Detroit (1742–43, 1750–53), Niagara (1744–46), and Crown Point (1746–47).
Hiawatha was an Iroquois Indian leader in pre-colonial America.
The Algonquin Indians are the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds and inhabiting most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean.
The term Sioux is a fragment of the French and Ojibwa word nadouessioux, meaning "little snakes."
Lake Minnetonka was a sacred site to the Dakota Indians.
Wildwood Park and the adjacent school take their names from nearby Wildwood Avenue. All three recognize the heavily wooded nature of the surrounding territory, once a Potawatomi hunting ground. Only a few blocks from the park and school, the Billy Caldwell Forest Preserve cuts through the community. Caldwell, a half-Indian, half-English chief of the Potowatomis, also known as Sauganash.
The Lehigh River, the word originates from a Native American word "Lechauwekink", meaning "where there are forks in the stream."
The name Mendota is a French misinterpretation of the Dakota word Mdo-Te. Mdo-Te (pronounced Bdoh Tay) means the mouth of a river or a meeting of waters. In this instance it is the Mdo-TE of the Wakpa (River) Mni-sota (less than clear or smoky water).
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