The Pelican River is a river in
Oneida County, Wisconsin
Oneida County is a county (United States), county in the state of Wisconsin, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 37,845. The county seat is Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Rhinelander. The county is consider ...
. The source is
Pelican Lake and the mouth is the confluence with the
Wisconsin River
The Wisconsin River is the longest river in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, at approximately 430 miles (692 km) long. As a tributary of the Mississippi River, it is part of the Mississippi River System. The river's name was first recorded in 1673 b ...
in
Rhinelander. Its name is a direct translation from the
Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the Great Plains, n ...
''Zhede-ziibi''.
The Pelican River was a travel artery for the Pelican Lake Band of the
Ojibwe Indians
The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the Great Plains, n ...
when they needed to go to
Lac du Flambeau or other central Ojibwe locations.
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Rivers of Wisconsin
Rivers of Oneida County, Wisconsin
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