Editing Bejou, Minnesota (section)

==History==
A post office called Bejou has been in operation since 1906.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Mahnomen | title=County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> Some sources state that the town got its name from a corruption of the French word ''Bonjour'', reasoning that the name is related to the [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] word ''Boozhoo''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=323}}</ref> However, these two words are linguistic false friends, and are not etymologically related.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netnewsledger.com/2013/11/28/word-boozhoo-come/|title=NetNewsLedger - Where Does the Word Boozhoo Come From?|last=Horton|first=Robert|date=2013-11-28|website=NetNewsLedger|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref> The town's name likely comes from the Ojibwe word ''bizhiw'' meaning "lynx",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/bizhiw-na|title=The Ojibwe People's Dictionary|website=ojibwe.lib.umn.edu|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref> a type of cat indigenous to North America,<ref>{{Citation|title=Canada lynx|date=2019-10-29|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canada_lynx&oldid=923537835|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref> and one of the [[doodem]]s of the [[Ojibwe]] people.<ref>{{Citation|title=Anishinaabe clan system|date=2019-09-09|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anishinaabe_clan_system&oldid=914844281|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref>