Mascouten
/məsˈkuːt(ə)n/(also Maskoutan) Now historical
noun
1A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting a region around the south of Lake Michigan, who merged with the Kickapoo at the beginning of the 19th cent.
2The extinct Algonquian language of the Mascouten.
Origin
Late 17th century. From French Mascouten from Ojibwa maškote:nss (person of the) little prairie, diminutive of maškote: prairie.