Named after a word originating from Chippewa and Cree dialects of the Algonquian language, literally meaning "that which is mixed." It refers to a smoking mixture of the inner bark of willows or dogwoods and indigenous tobacco.  A corruption of "kiniginigade". 

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[Source: Prusha and Foss. Kinnickinnic Years (New York: Arrow Printing, 1993); Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb 21, 1932.]