Kinnickinnic

The Kinnickinnic is a short, cold river of western Wisconsin, flowing toward the St. Croix and the Mississippi beyond. Its name comes from an Ojibwe word for tobacco mixed with other plants for smoking. At the junction of the river and its south fork, falls interrupt the water's course through the wooded country. The wider St. Croix valley lay between the homelands of Dakota and Ojibwe peoples, who both valued its resources.