[2][3] It joins the Mississippi River at Manomin County Park in Fridley,[4] about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the I-694 Bridge.

[3] Both tributaries join Rice Creek in Anoka County as part of the chain of lakes.

"[14] However, its Ojibwe language name has also been recorded as "Manominikan Sibi" or Manoominikaan-ziibi, meaning "river full of wild rice,"[15][16] which is known to have grown plentifully in the lakes of the watershed.

Chagobay told me that it winds back to the vicinity of the Falls of the St. Croix River, being separated from the latter by only a short portage.

Its course links several lakes, while irrigating a land abundant with wild rice where the Sioux gather their yearly provisions.

[10] Archaeological evidence exists that suggests ancestors of the Sioux hunted and fished in the vicinity of Bald Eagle Lake (approximately present-day White Bear Township) in the Rice Creek watershed, and had a summer village in the present-day city of Centerville as early as 2000 B.C.