Editing Leelanau County, Michigan (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:LeelanauPeninsulaMap.png|thumb|Map of the Leelanau Peninsula]]

Traditionally, the county's name was said to be a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] word meaning "delight of life",<ref name=clarke>{{cite web|url=https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/AccessMaterials/Bibliographies/MichiganLocalHistory/Pages/leelanau.aspx|publisher=[[Clarke Historical Library]], [[Central Michigan University]]|title=Bibliography on Leelanau County|access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> but it is a [[neologism]] from Indian agent and ethnographer [[Henry Schoolcraft]], who sometimes gave the name "Leelinau" to Native American women in his tales. He created many ''faux'' Indian place names in Michigan, using syllables of Ojibwe, Latin and Arabic,<ref>[http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--,00.html#lake Michigan Arts and History on Origins of County Names. (28 July 2009)]</ref> neglecting the fact that the [[Ojibwa language]] lacks any of the phonemes associated with the letter 'L' in English.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~jrvalent/ais301/Grammar/Phonology/Phonol002.html|title=The Sounds of Anishinaabemowin: Consonants and Vowels|work=Anishinaabemowin |author=Valentine, J. Randolph |access-date=January 29, 2020}}</ref>

More recently, however, scholars have established that ''Leelinau'' was first used as a pen name by Henry's wife, [[Jane Johnston Schoolcraft]], in writings for ''The Literary Voyager'', a family magazine which they co-wrote in the 1820s.<ref>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5722251_ITM Jeremy Mumford, "Mixed-race identity in a nineteenth-century family: the Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27"], ''Michigan Historical Review'', March 22, 1999, pp. 3-4, accessed December 11, 2008</ref> Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English. While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime (except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as "the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories. In 2008 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.<ref>[http://www.thesoundthestarsmake.com/ Robert Dale Parker, ''Jane Johnston Schoolcraft''], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, accessed December 11, 2008</ref>

[[File:Grand Traverse Light.jpg|thumb|[[Grand Traverse Light]], at the northernmost point of Leelanau County]]
[[File:Michigan Chardonnay vineyard.jpg|thumb|A [[vineyard]] in Leelanau County. The county comprises the [[Leelanau Peninsula AVA|Leelanau Peninsula American Viticultural Area]].]]
[[File:Alligator Hill Trail (9953615796).jpg|thumb|[[Lake Michigan]] shore from the Alligator Hill Trail in [[Glen Arbor Township, Michigan|Glen Arbor Township]]]]