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Medweganoonind, 19th-century Red Lake Ojibwe chief; Ozaawindib (Yellow Head), early 19th c. nonbinary warrior, guide; Chief Bender Early baseball pitcher with a career 2.46 ERA and a .625 winning percentage. Chief Rocky Boy (fl. late 19th c.), chief; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), author, wife of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, born in Sault ...
George Copway (Ojibwe: Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh; 1818 – June 27, 1869) was a Mississaugas Ojibwa writer, ethnographer, Methodist missionary, lecturer, and advocate of indigenous peoples. His Ojibwa name was Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh (Gaagigegaabaw in the Fiero orthography), meaning "He Who Stands Forever".
The 19th century saw the arrival of Protestant missions and the ultimate restriction of many Ojibwe people to reservations. Here, the Ojibwe were exposed more heavily to Christianity and many elements of Ojibwe religion, such as the midewiwin and puberty vision quests, declined substantially.
Francis Assikinack (c. 1824–1863) was a 19th-century Ojibwe historian. Assikinack was born on Manitoulin Island. He was raised learning only Ojibwe and did not learn English until after enrolling at Upper Canada College in 1840. His father Jean-Baptiste Assiginack was a prominent leader of the Ojibwe.
Elizabeth Bertrand (Ojibwe: Omagigiwikway; c. 1760 – February 28, 1827), known as Elizabeth Mitchell after her marriage to the British army surgeon David Mitchell, was a prominent Anishinaabe fur trader and political leader around the Straits of Mackinac in the early 19th century. In her native Ojibwe language she was known as Omagigiwikway.
The Johnstons are famous historically in the Sault Ste. Marie area, where the couple were prominent leaders in both the Euro-American and the Ojibwe communities. The young Jane learned the Ojibwe language and culture from her mother and her family, and she learned about written literature from her father and his large library. [1]
Aysh-ke-bah-ke-ko-zhay (or Aish-Ke-Vo-Go-Zhe, from Eshkibagikoonzhe, "[bird] having a leaf-green bill" in Anishinaabe language; also known as "Flat Mouth" (Gueule Platte), a nickname given by French fur traders) was a powerful Ojibwe chief who traveled to Washington, D.C. in 1855, along with Beshekee and other Ojibwa leaders, to negotiate the cession of ten million acres (40,000 km 2 ...
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth-century Ojibwa woman and a significant figure in Ojibwa history. [1] She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. [2]