"The Legend of Wisconsin" by Kathy-jo Wargin
Published by Sleeping Bear Press, 2007
ISBN978-1585363087

Gitchee Manitou sends Nanabush the Great Hare to the new north country to give the first animals their names and special markings. Legend says a game between Nanabush and Ahmik the Giant Beaver etches out the islands, ponds, and lakes of Wisk-on-sin, which means “place of the beaver."