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Winona (legend)
Winona
or
Wenonah
is a
Dakota Sioux
character in a "
Lover's Leap
" romantic legend set at
Maiden Rock
, which is on the
Wisconsin
side of
Lake Pepin
in the
United States
. Winona is said to have leaped to her death from this high precipice rather than marry a suitor she did not love. This theme is found in a number of
apocryphal
,
post-contact
tales in the place-name lore of
North America
.
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