My great grandmother was an Ojibwa (Chippewa) indian. She loved the French because the French gave here ancestors arms to drive the Fox indians from northern Wisconsin and the Sioux across the Mississippi. She drank a tea that she said would cure anything including cancer but I only remember it stinking. It had a few ingredients but I remember slippery elm and turkey rhubarb (probably from the funny terms). When she was little, they would make a trip to Canada to collect the herbs so all the ingredients must grow in Canada.

>>Very good! :o)
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>>Actually, I think the name Connecticut comes from a Native American word: "Quinatucquet," which means "Next to the Long River." I think it may have been Mohegan, but not sure. It may have been Pequot.
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>Seems like French transliteration... which could be pronounced even more strangely when read by an Anglophone, so "Connecticut" is not that far from the original as it could have been.
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>For that matter, the nation of Sioux (I assume pronounced "soo") is called "Sijuksi" in Serbian. There was nobody to tell our ancestors how to pronounce it, so it stuck in the language :).