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Directory of First Nations Individuals in South-Western Ontario 1750 - 1850 by Greg Curnoe
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Aaouas / Aa8as [fl. 1747], Tionnontaté/Pétun chief of the Deer tribe, Hatinnionen clan; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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Anáiásá [fl. 1761], Huron chief / speaker, Detroit area; attended a Grand Council with William Johnson at Detroit, September 9, 1761; Anaiasa replied to Johnson's opening speech on September 10th, pointing out Seneca chief Kayashota as the carrier of a war belt; Anáiásá addressed a meeting with Johnson in the Huron Village near Windsor on September 17, 1761 (Peckham: 82, 86; PSWJ vol. III: 483-486, 496-497). 'Brother You know that the greater part of our Warriors agreeable to the request made to them last year by Mr. Croghan are gone to War against the Cherokees for which reason we beg you will have pity on them, as when they return home they will be quite naked, we likewise pray that you will not omit any thing for our service & that the Great Man who governs all, will not forget us, that you will order our Guns & Hatchets to be mended for us as also procure us some Hoes for our Corn of which we stand in need as of anything else...' —Detroit, September 17, 1761 (PSWJ vol. III: 496).
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Angouirot / Ang8irot [fl. 1740; died before 1747], Wyandot/Huron chief, Turtle tribe, Entihoronnon (people of the great prairie) clan; Noyon was told on August 26, 1740 that only Ang8irot, third chief of the Hurons, was opposed to the move to Montréal; Ang8irot arrived in Detroit from Sandusky on September 16, 1740 and directly contradicted that information, saying that Detroit was unsafe for the Hurons and he wanted a safe place to live; he had lived in the small village but Augwitirot's widow moved to the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; alcoholic; ally of Nicholas Orontony, Potier called him janus quirinus (Goulet: 5, 10; Lajeunesse: 35-37; MPHSC vol. XXXIV: 172, 201-204). 'Many have told me that you do not like him; that you did not admit him to any council; that his people had spoken and he had said nothing; and that, when he saw me, he would let me know that he has reason to complain, since you give him out to be a dangerous and pernicious person' Beauharnois to Richardie, Detroit, June 14, 1741 (MPHSC vol. XXXIV: 202).
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Widow Angouirot / Widow Ang8irot [fl. 1747], Wyandot/Huron, Turtle tribe, Entihoronnon (people of the great prairie) clan wife of Chief Angouirot; Widow Augwitirot lived in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census ( Goulet: 10; Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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Anienouindes / Anien8indes [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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Aoes [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté Nation; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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Old Aondatorenha [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté woman; lived in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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Aronissa [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot chief; lived in a French house in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; the house burned down on January 18, 1747 (Lajeunesse: 35-37).



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Jim Bluejacket [born c.1765; died in Kansas around 1865], Shawnee/Chaouanon warrior, son of Shawnee Chief Wayapiersenwah and grandson of Jacques Duperon Baby, married a Wyandot; accompanied Tecumseh to visit the Creeks and Cherokees in 1809; retreated from Amherstburg with him in 1813 [Eckert says this was not Wayapiersenwah's son]; he was at the Battle of Moraviantown on October 5, 1813; according to Drake, Chief Jim Bluejacket, the son of Chief Wayapiersenwah, was killed at Maguaga on August 5, 1812 (Drake: 110; Eckert: 539, 768; Sugden: 235n; DCB vol. V: 852).
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Mary Bluejacket [fl. 1800] Shawnee/ Chaouanon Nation, daughter of Chief Wayapiersenwah and the grand daughter of Jacques Duperon Baby; married Jacques Lacelle of Detroit, and lived at the Rivière Raisin settlement (Quaife 1928 vol. I: 561n).
{Monroe, MI..named in the Memorial along Elm St just west of Telegraph as buried there}
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Le Brutal [fl. 1747], Tionnontaté chief, Wolf tribe, Hotiraon [sturgeon] clan; maintained a home at Etionnontout / Etionnt8t and in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; also maintained a household in Ohio with Chief Orontony (Clifton 1983: 14; Lajeunesse: 35-37).



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Charloe / Cha-ro / The Speaker [fl. 1829-1836], Odawa chief from Toledo, Ohio; he tried to claim part of the Anderdon Reserve in 1829; Charlo, Ojibwa chief, Muncey community, signed Surrender #37, part of Muncey Reserve, February 5, 1834; Chief Charloe travelled from Ohio to Toronto in 1836 to see Lieutenant Governor Bond Head, who came to Amherstburg and decided in favour of the Wyandots owning the Anderdon Reserve (Canada 1891 vol. I: 90; Bauman; Clarke: 122-124; Leclair 1988a: 38; MPHSC vol. IX: 443). 
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John Caldwell Senior / Caldwell [born c.1800; fl. 1820(?)], Ojibwa chief of the Caldwell Band, Point Pelee community; in 1788 the Ojibwa chief of Point Pelee lived in a house on the Point; Caldwell's community wintered on the River Ruscom; this group also occupied Point Pelee, Pelee Island and part of the Anderdon Reserve near Windsor, along the Detroit River (Clifton 1975: 111-114; Ferris: 55-56; Leclair 1988a: 49).
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Chiminatawa, Odawa chief, signed [with a Sturgeon totem] the Jacob Schieffelin deed, south side of the Detroit River, opposite Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], October 13, 1783 (PAC RG10 ser. II vol. 13, C1224 vol. 16: 117-120; Lajeunesse: 66, 154; Peckham: 258, 261; MPHSC vol. IX: 442, 447-448, vol. X: 472, vol. XIII: 90, vol. XX: 195; PSWJ vol. IV: 526-528, vol. XI: 349). 'Brethren! we see you, tho' you be far distant, and we observe you breaking down the branches from the trees to lay across our road, at the same time hanging down your heads with tears in your eyes'—speech to the Delawares, Detroit, June 14, 1778 (MPHSC, vol. IX: 447). '...our Brethren the French Inhabitants have informed me that a Stripe of Land from the back of the Huron Church to Perch Island has been given away during my absence and I who am the principal Chief do now in behalf of my nation Protest against the said proceedings...' Detroit, October 20, 1781 (PAC RG10 ser. II vol. 13).
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Alexander Clark Senior [born 1800; died April 3, 1876 at Windsor], Wendat/Wyandot/Huron of the Huron Reserve [Anderdon]; interpreter for Wyandot Chief Joseph White; he was listed in the Anderdon return of August 31, 1840; Alexander Clark Senior, Huron chief, signed: Surrender #75½, lands near Windsor, April 28, 1854, Surrender #141, Little Turkey Island, Detroit River, November 27, 1874, and Surrender #146, part of the Huron reserve, August 20, 1875 (Canada 1847: no. 19; Canada 1891 vol. I: 200, vol. II: 2, 10; Leclair 1988a: 63-64, 1988b: 3).
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Alexander Clarke Junior [fl. 1892], Huron/ Wyandot Nation; he signed Surrender #346, Huron reserve, November 2, 1892 (Canada 1891 vol. III: 120).
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Thomas A. Clark [fl. 1838-1840; died 1849 near Windsor], Wendat/Wyandot/Huron Nation, member of the Joseph Warrow Senior faction in 1838; he was elected Wyandot head chief for life of the Anderdon Wyandot community around 1839; he succeeded George Ironside jr. as elected chief, and was succeeded by William Clark; he was listed in the Anderdon return of August 31, 1840 (Canada 1847: no. 19; Leclair 1988a: 45, 63



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Daottundt / Dawatout / John Hicks [fl. 1817], Wyandot Nation; signed the US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817 (US 1837: 216; MPHSC vol. XVI: 676).
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Desharemoi [fl. 1800], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté chief; signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800 (Canada 1891: 30; Lajeunesse: 208).
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Dewatonte / Deewentatee [fl. 1780; died c.1794 near Windsor], principal Huron/ Wyandot chief, Turtle tribe, Windsor area community; Dewatonte, Huron chief, signed the deed for a gift of land on the Detroit River to Father Potier, at Detroit, September 22, 1780; he signed the deed for a gift of land by the Huron village to Reverend F.X. Hubert, at Detroit, March 4, 1782 [with Doyantate] (Lajeunesse: 120, 131-132; Leclair 1988a: 25, 31).
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Peter Dooyentate Clarke / Peter Clarke [born c.1810; died c.1892; Petrone states that he died in 1870], Wyandot Nation, Anderdon community, author / chief, son of a Wyandot woman and an Euro-Canadian officer of the Indian Department at Fort Malden, grandson of Huron Chief Adam Brown; moved from the Anderdon Reserve to Sandusky in 1841; married a Cherokee there; the Wyandot sold their Ohio lands in 1842, they disbanded in 1855 and Peter Clarke moved back to Anderdon to nurse his mother in 1865; he was re-instated in the Anderdon Wyandot community by order of Spragge c.1867; he claimed the hereditary chieftainship of the Anderdon Wyandot in 1867; published Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts etc in Toronto, 1870; contested Chief Joseph White's claim to the chieftainship of the Anderdon Wyandot community in 1871; Peter D. Clarke signed: Surrender #141, Little Turkey Island, Detroit River, November 7, 1874, Surrender #167, part of Anderdon Township, December 21, 1877, Surrenders #177 and #178, parts of Anderdon Township, May 7, 1879, Surrenders #215 and #216, parts of Anderdon Township, May 7, 1879, and Surrender #346, Huron reserve, November 2, 1892 (Canada 1847: no. 19; Canada 1891 vol. II: 2, 66, 83, 85, 154, 156, vol. III: 120; Blair vol. II: 189; Clarke; Leclair 1988a: 63-65, 74; Petrone: 71). '..the four nations now entered into an arrangement about their country, as follows: The Wyandotts to occupy and take charge of the regions from the River Thames, north, to the shores of Lake Erie, south. The Chippewas to hold the regions from the Thames to the shores of Lake Huron and beyond. The Ottawas to occupy and take charge of the country from Detroit to the confluence of Lake Huron, with St. Clair river, thence northwest to Michilimakinac, and all around there. And the Pottawatomies the regions south and west of Detroit'Toronto, 1870
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ÌDow-yen-tet the Elder / Dewentatee / Pomoacan / The Half King [fl. 1777 onwards; died on the Huron Reserve near Windsor in February or March, 1791; however, De Schweinitz says that the Half King died at Detroit in the summer of 1788; Scruniyattha was an earlier Wyandot Half King and head chief in 1755], Wendat/Huron/ Wyandot chief of Sandusky, his Delaware name was Pomoacan; he moved to the Windsor area around 1781; son of Wyandot Chief Orontony, father of several sons including Wyandot Chiefs Harenyou and Scotosh of Sandusky, and Dow-yen-tet the Younger of the Huron Reserve near Windsor; his daughter lived on the Huron Reserve after his death and two of her sons were baptised there in 1798-1799; the Half King defeated US forces near Lichtenau and attacked Fort Henry around the beginning of October, 1777; Dy-en-tete the Elder and Dy-en- tete the Younger, Wyandot war chiefs, attended a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Dunquat / the Half King attended a council at Upper Sandusky, July 30, 1779; Dugantait made peace on a belt with the US and went to Detroit to get others to follow his example in 1779; in 1780 the Wyandot Half King threatened to drive the Delawares off Wyandot lands if they did not side with the English; Pomoacan, then living at Upper Sandusky, and Captain Pipe arrived at Salem and Gnadenhütten with a large number of warriors on August 10, 1781; Zeisberger warned the US at Fort Pitt of their approach; the Half King attended a council at Gnadenhütten on August 20 where he asked the Moravians to settle near him at Sandusky; he asked them again on August 25; the Half King's warriors plundered Gnadenhütten in September 1781; he offered the Moravian Delaware protection from U.S. Forces and on September 11 Gnadenhütten was abandoned; two of the Half King's sons were killed near the Ohio River by Poe the elder after a Wyandot raid on Harmon's Creek in 1781, Scotosh escaping; Pomoacan brought the Moravian Delaware to Sandusky on October 1; the Half King claimed he was formerly a Six Nations chief on October 21, 1781; Half King sent the Moravian Delaware to Detroit on December 11, 1781; Half King attended a council at Sandusky, March 1, 1782; the Half King unwittingly approved the torture and death of US Captain Crawford by the Delaware on June 11, 1782; Tyantet / Half King, principal Huron chief from Sandusky, attended and spoke at a council at Detroit, September 1, 1782; Doyentete, Huron chief of Detroit, attended and spoke at a council at Detroit, April 24, 1783; Deyonquat attended and spoke at a council at Sandusky, August 26, 1783; Duentate, Huron chief, attended councils at Detroit on October 21 and 22, 1783; Daunghquat, Wyandot chief, signed the US Treaty of Fort McIntosh, January 21, 1785; the Half King Weyondott signed the US Big Miamis [Maumee River] Treaty, January 31, 1786 - while where he attended a private meeting with the US commissioners who threatened him; Duyantale / Duentete, Huron/Wyandot chief, attended a council at Muskingum Falls, December 1788 - while there he signed the US Treaty of Fort Harmar, January 9, 1789; Doy-en-tet / Dow-yen-tet, Huron chief [possibly Dow-yen-tet the Younger], attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Turtle totem with a cross on its shell] Surrender #2, south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; The Half King warned the Moravians to leave the Huron River area [because of the US presence] in March 1791; St. Clair noted the absence of Dewintate from a council with the US at Fort Harmar on April 30, 1791; on May 3, 1791 McNiff wrote that "the Chief [Dewentatee] who lived there [Rivière Canard] and had the greatest claim on those lands died about two months past..." (For references see Dow- yen-tet the Younger). 'Brethren the Six Nations you know where the Boundary Line was fixed, since you were the people who fixed it. We now inform you that the Virginians are already encroaching upon our Lands, and we desire you and our Father to be strong, and desire them to desist from encroaching upon us, otherwise they will destroy the good work of Peace which we are endeavouring to promote.'Sandusky, Sept. 8, 1783.
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ÌDow-yen-tet the Younger / Duantats / Duentet [fl. 1778-1812], principal Huron chief, Rivière Canard [near Windsor] community, the son of Dow-yen-tet the Half King, brother of Haroenyou; Dy-en-tete the Younger, Wyandot war chief, attend-ed a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Daouaton / Da8aton, Huron chief, signed the deed for a gift of land on the Detroit River to Father Potier, at Detroit, September 22, 1780; Toienthet, principal Huron chief, attended a council with Major De Peyster at Detroit, July 29, 1781, asking for a missionary to replace Potier who had died that year; Doyantate, Wyandot chief, signed the deed for a gift of land by the Huron village to Reverend F.X. Hubert, at Detroit, [with Dewatonte], March 4, 1782; Dow-yen-tet, Huron chief [possibly Dow-yen-tet the Younger], attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Turtle totem with a cross on its shell] Surrender #2, south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; Duyenty, Huron chief, attended and spoke at a council with De Peyster at Detroit, August 16, 1790, he stated his determination to retain the Huron lands at the River Canard near Windsor; he passed a war belt from the Ojibwa on September 7, 1792 at Detroit; Dunquad / Half King [probably Dow-yen-tet the Younger], the successor to Sandusky Wyandot head Chief Tarhé, urged Wyandot neutrality after the fall of Detroit on August 15, 1812; Dunquad / Half King, Wyandot chief, signed the US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002; ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1891 vol I: 1; De Schweinitz: 457, 493, 516, 533, 611; Fraser: xciv; Gray: 56, 65, 67, 75; Hodge vol. I: 527; Horsman: 31-35; Kjellberg: 28; Lajeunesse: 120, 124-126, 131-132, 173; Leclair 1988a: 25, 31; Leighton: app. B4; Weslager: 312, 315; MPHSC vol. IX: 443, vol. X: 348, 502, 527, 528, 546, vol. XII: 40, 92, 126, vol. XIII: 46, vol. XVI: 676, vol. XIX: 413, vol. XX: 67, 133, 175, 181-182, 308, 678, vol. XXIV: 24, 27, 41, 179, 214, 218, vol. XXV: 690; OAHS vol. III: 6, 10-11, vol. VI: 402-403, vol. VII: 21, 59, 64-66, 77, 225, 331). 'When our forefathers were living they were always at war and fighting with different Nations of Indians and were drove from place to place until at last they came to the River Cannard and other places about it, where then Sastereche [Sas-ta-rit-sie] fixed his seat, and said this ground I appoint for the present Generation and the Posterity that is to come after them. I have made it known to all Nations around me that this Ground I intend to stand upon - and here we must perish before any other power dispossess us of it'south of Windsor, August 16, 1790..


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From Surrender #2 (1790). PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002


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Gaiash [fl. 1800], Detroit community chief; he signed Surrender #12, Huron Church reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800 (Canada 1891 vol. I: Lajeunesse: 208).



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Haroenyou / Harrowenyou [fl. 1795-1815], Wyandot chief, son of Wyandot Chief Dow-yen-tet, brother of Dow-yen-tet the Younger; Harvenyou / Haroenyou signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795, and the US Treaty of Fort McIntosh, July 4, 1805; Harronenu, Wyandot head, subordinate to Tarhé, attended a council at Sandusky, August 20, 1805; on September 19, Harronenu told US Governor Hull about British attempts to get the Wyandot to break their Treaty with the US; Harenyou signed the US Springwells Treaty, September 8, 1815 (US 1837: 54, 173; Hodge vol. I: 527; MPHSC vol. XX: 678, vol. XXXX: 69, 71).
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Ha-yane-ma-dae / Isadore [fl. 1809-1816], Métis/Wyandot chief; he lived on the Wabash River at the mouth of the Massinawa River [Peru, Indiana] in 1812; Ha-yane- ma-dae / Isedore, Wyandot chief, signed a letter to US Governor Hull asking for more land, September 30, 1809; according to Peter Clarke, Wyandot Chief Isadore, "a half-breed, part French and part Wyandott", and second Wyandot chief Gould, were part of a peace mission to Tecumseh on the Wabash River in June 1812; Isadore addressed the council in Shawnee and delivered a message from US Governor Hull; Isadore, Huron chief, Brownstown community, addressed a council with the Indian Department at Amherstburg, June 19, 1816; Eckert says Ha-yane- ma-dae was Chief Shetoon (Clarke: 88-98; Eckert: 570-571; MPHSC vol. XVI: 471-473, vol. XXXX: 307). 'If your [Tecumseh's] scheme could be consummated by all the Indian nations forming themselves into one great combination to arrest the rapid march of the whites over our country, we might check them for a while, but we would all, eventually, be swept away, like feathers before the wind, by the irresistible tide of the white emigration from the east! The weak must give way to the powerful, so goes the world'— Massinawa, June 1812 (Clarke: 95).



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George Ironside Junior [fl. 1825-1840], born in Upper Canada, civil servant, superintendent of Indian Affairs at Amherstburg in 1840, elected Huron?/ Wendat/Wyandot or Tionnontaté chief of the Anderdon Reserve; son of George Ironside of the Indian Department (began in the Department as an assistant to Matthew Elliott) and Vocemassussia of the Shawnee Nation - she was related to Tenskwatawa [Peter Jones visited his father, who was the Indian Agent at Fort Malden on March 29, 1828]; George Ironside Junior was elected head chief in 1838 or 1839; he was succeeded by Thomas A. Clark who was elected a few years later; George Ironside Junior was moved to Manitoulin Island by the Indian Department because of a conflict at Amherstburg - he served on the island as Indian agent to the Wikwemikong Ojibwa community (Canada 1847: no. 20; BHC: G. Ironside Papers; Ferris; Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 127; Leclair 1988a: 63; MPHSC vol. XX: 698).
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Isononcainen [fl. 1781], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté chief; he attended a council with Major De Peyster at Detroit, July 29, 1781 (Lajeunesse: 124-126; MPHSC vol. X: 502, vol. XIII: 92).
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I-yo-na-yo-ta-ha [fl. 1805], Wendat/Huron/Wyandot chief; he signed the US Treaty of Detroit ceding the west half of Lake St. Clair, etc., November 17, 1807 (US 1837: 136; Leighton: app. B1).



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Jorihoha [fl. 1781], Huron chief; attended a council with Major De Peyster at Detroit, July 29, 1781 (Lajeunesse: 124-126; MPHSC vol. X: 502, vol. XIII: 92).



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Kageskaiva [fl. 1800-1843(?)], Ojibwa chief; signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800; Quagegwau, Ojibwa chief, signed [with a Fish totem] a petition to the Queen in 1838 objecting to the illegal surrender of Indian lands; Kagivajiway, Ojibwa, lived at the Upper St. Clair River reserve, January 20, 1843 (Canada 1847: no. 20; Lajeunesse: 208; Schmalz: 136).
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Kewish was listed in the Anderdon Reserve [Anderdon Township] census, August 31, 1840 (PAC RG10 ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1847: no. 19; Clifton, Cornell, and McClurken: 21; Denke 1991: 7; MPHSC vol. X: 472, vol. XIII: 90, vol. XVI: 643, vol. XX: 195, vol. XXXX: 192-195).
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Kinenchoue / Kinench8e [fl. 1747], Huron/ Wyandot or Tionnontaté Nation; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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John Greyeyes [fl. 1843], a converted Christian Wyandot, gave a farewell sermon in the Wyandot language at Upper Sandusky in July 1843, on the occasion of the departure of the Wyandot from Ohio (US 1837: 6; Gray: 52ff, 60-61, 85, 303; Kjellberg: 25-26; OAHS vol. XIV: 442; PSWJ vol. XI: 724, vol. XII: 1048, vol. XIX: 253-254, 689, vol. XXV: 689).



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Mack-e-ta-pe-na-ce / Blackbird [fl. 1812-1814], Wyandot chief, Michigan and Maumee Valley community, follower of Huron chief Ted-y-a-ta; British ally in 1812; Mkedepenase, Wyandot chief, fought at the Battle of Frenchtown, January 1813; Blackbird spoke at a council, June 15, 1813; Blackbird fought at Ball's Fields [three miles from Niagara] with Chief Norton on July 17, 1813; fought at the Battle of Fort Meigs, August 1, 1813; Chief Blackbird withdrew from the war with Wyandot war chief Too-oo-troon-too-ra at Niagara in May 1814 because of the short rations given to his warriors, he retired toward Lake Huron [Casselman & Sugden say that Blackbird went over to the American side with Too-oo-troon- too-ra in 1814] (Casselman: 71; Ridout: 204; Stacey: 111-112; Sugden: 203; MPHSC vol. XV: 711-712, vol. XVI: 717).
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Makons [fl. 1743-1757], Ojibwa or Wyandot Nation, married to an Odawa woman; lived in the first cabin at Aaae, White River or Belle Rivière with his family in 1743, according to Potier; lived at Belle Rivière in 1757; Margaret Makons, the daughter of Makons, was married at Assumption church on January 7, 1769 (Goulet 6-7; Lajeunesse: 36, 347; MPHSC vol. XXXX: 64).
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Mathias [fl. 1747], Wendat/Wyandot/Huron or Tionnontaté chief of the Deer tribe, Eangontrounon clan; he lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).
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ÌMeng-da-hai [fl. 1790], principal Huron/ Wyandot/Tionnontaté chief; attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Wolf's Head totem] Surrender #2, South side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002, RG10 ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1891 vol. I: 1; Leighton: app. B4).
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Michipichy / Quarante Sols / Quarante Sous / Quarantesou [fl. 1695-1748], Huron chief, Miami River community; captured by the Iroquois in 1695; regarded with suspicion by the French because of his independence; he lived at Michilimakinac until Cadillac convinced him to settle at Detroit in 1701; Quarante Sols attended and spoke at the Great Peace Council at Montreal, July 25, 1701, and signed the general peace treaty there; his wife delivered letters to Father Maret at Michilimakinac on October 20, 1701; Quarente Solz left Michilimakinac for Detroit around May 1703; Michipichy negotiated with French and English traders to force prices down; on September 26, 1706, Odawa Chief Miscouaky accused Quarante Sols of giving war belts secretly to the Nations at Detroit to destroy the Odawas; Cadillac in turn accused him of helping cause the Odawa - Miami conflict of 1706; Quarante Sols was given a number of presents by Cadillac on September 29, 1706; Quarante Sols appeared at Detroit in January 1748 with a group of Hurons from Sandusky (Blair vol. II: 136; DCB vol. III: 446; MPHSC vol. XXXIII: 114, 118-119, 126-127, 160, 237-238, 270, 288, 292, 296, 432-434).
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Miere / Myeerah / Myecruh / Mayar / Mieray / Meare / Walk In The Water [born c.1748; died on a reservation on the Huron River in 1818], Wendat/Huron/ Wyandot chief, lived at Wyandotte, Michigan, 12 miles below Detroit; Au-me- yee-ray signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795; Mai-i-rai, Wyandot chief, invited Quakers to Upper Sandusky in 1798; Walk in the Water lived at Brownstown [Trenton, Mich.], he brought a speech to Hull from the Upper Sandusky Wyandot chiefs on July 26, 1805; he signed the US Treaty of Fort Industry in 1805; Miere / Walk In The Water signed the US Treaty of Detroit, for the west half of Lake St. Clair etc., November 17, 1807; Walk in the Waters delivered a speech to Hull on September 30, 1809; Maera and seven other Wyandot chiefs petitioned the US on February 5, 1812 and obtained 50-year possession of Brownstown and Monguagon; he declared his neutrality in early 1812; Walk in the Water attended a council at Amherstburg, July 7, 1812; Chief Walk in Water moved to the interior of Michigan before Hull invaded Canada; Hull stated that he was a "zealous friend of neutrality" on July 14, 1812; he commanded British Indians at the Battle of Maguaga with Chief Marpot, August 5, 1812; he fought at the fall of Detroit, August 16, 1812 and at the Battle of Frenchtown on January 20, 1813; he attended the Brownstown council of August 22-23, 1813; he broke with the British secretly in the summer of 1813 and signed an armistice with the US on October 14, 1813; he signed the US Springwells Treaty, September 8, 1815; Walk in the Water ceded all rights to Brownstown and Monguagon on September 20, 1818; he appears in Richardson's novel The Canadian Brothers; his house near Trenton was still standing in 1833 (US 1837: 54, 113, 136, 176; Berton 1980: 147; Casselman: xxx; Clarke: 102, 107; Sugden: 36-38; DCB vol. V,: 619-620; MPHSC vol. XX: 416, vol. XXVI: 283, 297, vol. XXXX: 61, 75, 305,414, 417, 461; OAHS vol. XIV: 314).
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ÌMon-do-ao [fl. 1781-1790], Huron/Wyandot/Tionnontaté chief; Man-do-ro, Huron chief, attended a council at Detroit, April 26, 1781; Mon-do-ro / Mon-do- ao, principal Huron chief, attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Wolf totem] Surrender #2, south side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor [Lajeunesse spells his name Mondoro] (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002, RG10 ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1891 vol. I: 1; Lajeunesse: 173; Leighton: app. B4).

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From Surrender #2 (1790). PAC RG10, Vol. 1840, IT 002.