Crow) Waub-ish-gaug-aug-e (White Raven or White

Notes:

Occupation: Ojibway chief of Lac Du Flambeau til death

Chief of Lac du Flambeau till his death in 1847.
Half-brother of the Sioux Wabasha.

Tribe: Chippewa Clan: Crane

Other Names: Ah-bish-ka-gog

Family/Spouse: Waub-Ish-Gaug-Aug-E. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Skies) Margaret Racine (O-ge-mau-gee-shi-go-quay) (Queen of the was born about 1790 in WI; died in 1860 in Crow Wing, MN.

Notes:

Withstood threats from the British and was one of the Ojibway chiefs
that remained nuetral in the war of 1812. Moved the tribe to Lac du
Flambeau.

He was born in Indian lands, Michigan Territo. !"Principle chief of Lac du Flambeau", Crane totem, Chippewa (Ojibway) nation.

Keesh-ke-mum married Okunzhewug about 1760 in Lac de Flambeau, Michigan Territory, WI. Okunzhewug died in 1827 in Clover Portage, Michigan Territory, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"In the summer of 1827, Okunzhewug, an old woman, the wife of Kishkemun, the
principal chief of Torch Lake (Lac du Flambeau), a man superannuated and blind,
attended the treaty of Butte des Morts, bearing her husband's medal. She was
treated with the respect due to the character she represented, and ample
presents were direected to be given to her; among other things a handsome hat.
The latter article had been requested of her by a young Menomonie, and refused.
It is thought a general feeling of jealousy was excited by her good reception.
A number of the Menomonies went on her return route as far as the Clover
Portage, where she was last seen. Having never returned to her village, the
Chippewas attributed her death to the Menomonies. Her husband died soon
after; but she had numerous and influential relatives to avenge her real of
supposed murder. This is the account delivered by the Chippewas, and it is
corroborated by reports from the traders of that section of the country. Her
singular disappearance and secret death at the Clover Portage, is undisputed;
and whether caused or not by any agency of the Menomonies, the belief of such
agency, and that of the most direct kind, is fixed in the minds of the
Chippewas, and has furnished the basis of their subsequent acts in relation to
the Menominie hunting-parties who have visited the lower part of Chippewa
River. Two women belonging to one of these parties were killed be a Chippewa
war-party traversing that part of the country the ensuing year. The act was
disclaimed by them as not being intentional, and it was declared they supposed
the women to be Sioux. On a close inquiry, however, I found the persons who
committed this act were relatives of Okunzewug, which renders it probable that
the murder was intentionally perpetrated..."
!Source #2: (for location) Treaty with the Chippewa, etc., 1827. ...Concluded
at the Butte des Morts, on Fox river, in the Territory of Michigan,...

Birth:
She was born in Indian lands, Michigan Territo.

Notes:

First Ojibway to pioneer to the headwaters of the Wisconsin River. He
was chief of tribes at Trout Lake and Turtle Portage.

Chief of Crane totem, Chippewa (Ojibway) nation. Born in the mid to late
1600's, Resided at La Point until the death of his father, KE-CHE-NE-ZUH-YAUH.
Then he pioneered a band toward the headwaters of the Wisconsin River. And
finally residing at Lac du Flambeau until his death. See History of the
Ojibway People, by W W Warren, pp. 316-318.

Notes:

Represented Ojibway Nation as head of Bus-in-as-see (Crane) Totem at
first treaty with French at Sault St. Marie, 1671. Lived at La
Pointe, Wisc.

The Ojibwe (Chippewa) occupied a large territory encompassing all the
northern shores of Lake Huron and Lake Superior from Georgian Bay to
the edge of the prairies. The Algonkin lived in the Ottawa valley.

Represented the Chippewa (Ojibway) tribe, as their head chief, at the signing
of the treaty in 1671 at Sault Ste. Marie, with the French. Also the same as
Sha-ga-wa-mick-aug. See History of the Ojibway People, by W W Warren.pp 316-8.
Of the 1671 treaty Warren writes: "(FROM) The Envoy of the French king... at the
end of his address a gold medal shaped like a heart was placed on the breast of
Ke-che-ne-zuh-yauh, and by this mark of honor he was recognized as the
chief of the Lake Superior Ojibways. On the death of this chieftan, this gold
medal was buried with him, through a superstitious notion that he should appeat
in the land of the spirits with the same honors which had attended him on
earth. His grave was located on the shores of Shag-a-waum-ik-ong Bay. In 1850
it was carefully searched for by some of his decendants to recover the
medal, but the grave was found to have been swept away by high water". (p131-2)