| 4. | Brother) Ke-che-ne-zuh-yauh (My Great Elder was born in Racine; died in La Point, Madeline Island, Indian Territory, WI. 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)
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