Calumet

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A Calumet is a Native American smoking pipe carved out of pipestone, sometimes called a "peace pipe"

Calumet is also the name (or part of the name) of a number of places in North America:

In the Unites States

• Calumet, Colorado
• Calumet, Iowa
• Calumet, Michigan
• Calumet, Minnesota
• Calumet, Oklahoma
• Calumet, Pennsylvania
• Calumet, Wisconsin
• Calumet City, Illinois
• Calumet-Norvelt, Pennsylvania
• Calumet Township, Cook County, Illinois
• Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana
• Calumet Township, Michigan
• Calumet College of St. Joseph, Chicago
• Calumet County, Wisconsin

In Canada

• L'Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Quebec
• Point-Calumet, Quebec
• Calumet College, York University, Toronto

Calumet also refers to:

• SS Calumet, a Great Lakes ore boat which was owned by Lower Lakes Towing Ltd.
• Amtrak's former Calumet commuter service between Valparaiso, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois
• Calumet Farm was a well-known Thoroughbred horse breeding farm, owned by the founder of the Calumet Baking Powder Company.
• Grand Calumet River in Indiana
• The Calumet Sag Channel in Illinois
• The Calumet Trail, a multiuse trail in northwestern Indiana