Mozeemlek.

In yesterday’s thread, Rodger C wrote: Surely unrelated, but I can’t resist mentioning it here, is Mozeemlek, a people of western North America mentioned by Lahontan in the early 18th century. This and other things in his books are commonly called fictitious, but they look to me as if he’d sat in Minnesota collecting Indigenous stories about parts west, and then faked a visit to them. Plurals like “Mozeemlek” and “Tahuglauk” have an Algonkian air to them. A post on this topic? His wish is my command; Keith Ivey found this link about Baron Lahontan’s discoveries: The Baron had discovered several of the most amazing Indian civilizations on the continent: larger, more civilized, with written languages and sophisticated governments. Marquette and Joliet could not hold a candle to the baron’s discoveries. The only problem was, subsequent explorers were unable to ever again find the Long River, or a single Essenape, Mozeemlek, Ekoros, or Gnascitare Indian. The baron was eventually…