Draft:Ajijaak Dodem

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History

The Loon Clan was said to have been rising in prominence in the mid-18th-century due to the efforts of Andaigweos(Ojibwe: Aandegwiiyaas, "Crow's Meat"), Kechewaishke's grandfather. Andaigweos was born in the Shagawamikong region, son to a man described as "a Canadian Indian" (i.e. a Saulteaux from Sault Ste. Marie, a key Ojibwa village at Lake Superior's eastern end). At the time of first French contact in the mid-17th century, men of the Crane doodem held the positions of hereditary peace chiefs of Ojibwa communities at both Sault Ste. Marie and La Pointe. Andaigweos was a skilled orator and favorite of the French officials and voyageurs. In that period, leaders of the Cranes were concerned more with internal matters. By the 19th century, it was Kechewaishke's clan, the Loons, that was recognized as the principal chiefs at La Pointe.^[1][2]

Although the Loons were afforded respect as principal peace chiefs, this status was not permanent. The Cranes, led in Kechewaishke's time by his sub-chief Tagwagane, maintained that they were the hereditary chiefs. They said the Loons' status as spokesmen hinged upon recognition by the Cranes. A chief's power in Ojibwa society was based on persuasion and consensus, holding only as long as the community of elders, including the women, chose to respect and follow the chief's lead.^[3]

Notable Members

Waubujejack

This section is an excerpt from Waubujejack.[edit]

Waubujejack was an Ojibwe chief of the Crane clan who lived near Chequamegon Bay. In the 21st century, one of his descendants made an art piece depicting him.

Tagwagane

This section is an excerpt from Tagwagane.[edit]

Chief Tagwagané (Ojibwe: Dagwagaane, "Two Lodges Meet") (c. 1780–1850) was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) sub-chief of the La Pointe Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, located in the Chequamegon area in the first half of the 19th century. He was of the Ajijaak-doodem (Crane Clan). His village was often located along Bay City Creek (Naadoobiikaag-ziibiwishenh: "creek for collecting water") within the city limits of what now is Ashland, Wisconsin.

During the signing of the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, Father Chrysostom Verwyst, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, was informed by Chief Tagwagané of a copper plate his family used for time reckoning.^{[citation needed]} With each passing generation, Tagwagané's ancestors had made a notch in the plate.^[4] Based on the description Verwyst gave, William Whipple Warren concluded that Chief Tagwagané's ancestors first arrived in the Chequamegon Bay area sometime around 1490.

Equaysayway

This section is an excerpt from Madeline Cadotte.[edit]

Madeline Cadotte was an Ojibwe woman of the prominent clan ajijaak dodem.

She was the eldest daughter of chief Waubujejack. After her marriage to Michel Cadotte according to Ojibwe tradition, she went along with her husbands’ expeditions and used her lineage to help form vital partnerships with the indigenous peoples in the area. Around the start of the 19th century she and her husband would built a permeant home on Madeline Island, where she would become a powerful figure in the area.

Michel and Madeline would get married a second time under the customs of the Catholic Church, she would be baptized on the same day and be given her European name. Close to the end of her life she would be interviewed by her grandson William Whipple Warren when he was writing about the history of the Ojibwe.

Many scholars have regard her as a prominent figure to the history of the Apostle Islands. Madeline island, among other places in Wisconsin is named after her. She has been referenced many times in literature of Wisconsin. She is the ancestor to many prominent people in North America.

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Stuff to Use

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Doodem_and_Council_Fire/SUA3EAAAQBAJ?hl=en

This book talks about history and origins of this clan.

History book on the issue.

History book

Another history book (page 18 talks about the genealogy)

William W. Warren

Another source to use

Book by native author. (Page 7 talks about the first recorded leader of the original crane.) The first recorded one is Kechenezuhyauh

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/EOmCZwEACAAJ?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhxYub4fuNAxVAIEQIHU_0IG8Q7_IDegQIEBAE

Has some history stuff here. try pages 166.

References

1. Morse, 367
2. Schoolcraft (American Indians), 261.
3. Warren, 87-89
4. Loew, Patty (2001). Indian nations of Wisconsin: Histories of endurance and renewal. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-87020-335-5.

Bibliography

• • Armstrong, Benjamin. (1891) Early Life Among the Indians: Reminiscences from the life of Benjamin G. Armstrong. T.P. Wentworth Ashland, WI: Wentworth.
  • Diedrich, Mark. (1999) Ojibway Chiefs: Portraits of Anishinaabe Leadership. ISBN 0-9616901-8-6
  • Ely, Edmund F. (2012). The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849. University of Nebraska Press
  • Holzhueter, John O. 1973. Chief Buffalo and Other Wisconsin-Related Art in the National Capitol, Wisconsin Magazine of History 56: 4, p. 284-88.
  • Holzhueter, John O. 1986. Madeline Island & the Chequamegon Region. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin. pp. 49–50.
  • Loew, Patty. (2001). Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
  • Morse, Richard E. (1855). "The Chippewas of Lake Superior" in Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, v. III, Madison, 1904. pp. 365–369.
  • Satz, Ronald N. (1997). Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Satz, Ronald N., Anthony G. Gulig, and Richard St. Germaine. (1991).  Classroom Activities on Chippewa Treaty Rights. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
  • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. (1834).  Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake. New York: Harper.
  • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. (1851).  The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts. Buffalo: Derby.
  • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. (1851).  Personal Memories of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes.Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co.
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  • "Death of Buffalo Chief," Superior Chronicle [Superior, Wis.], October 23, 1855.
• Silbernagel, Robert (May 13, 2020). The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior. Wisconsin Historical Society. ISBN 9780870209413.
• DuLong, John P. (2020), Jean-Baptiste Cadotte's First Family: Genealogical Summary, University of Saskatchewan
• DuLong, John P. (2015), Jean-Baptiste Cadotte's Second Family: Genealogical Summary, University of Saskatchewan
• Tobloa, Thomas (1974). "Cadotte Family Stories". Cadott Printing.
• Warren, William (1885). History of the Ojibway People. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 9780873516433.
• Schenck, Theresa M. (January 6, 2007). William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803206236.