Ma-mong-a-ze-da (

Ojibwe The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...

: ''Mamaangĕzide''In the Wisconsin dialect of the Ojibwe language, the short, unaccented "i" of ''Mamaangizide'' is realized as a short "e" "

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Big Foot") was an 18th-century

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chief from Shagawamikong. He was a member of the Caribou

doodem The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on patrilineal clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan () was borrowed into English as totem A totem (from oj, ᑑᑌᒼ, italics=no o ...

"Adik Reindeer Clan" and his ancestors came from

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on the north shore of

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. His father was his mother's second husband as she had been married to a chief of the

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people previously during a period of peace between the Ojibwa and Dakota. When war resumed the couple was obliged to divorce with the husband and children joining the Dakota and the wife marrying an Ojibwa man. In this way, Mamongazeda's older half-brother Waḣpeša “Red Leaf” Atetaŋkawamduška “Great Father of Snakes” Delonais, Wapasha I Wapasha became a chief of the Dakota while he became a chief of the Ojibwa. In addition to being an accomplished war leader, Mamongazeda was persuasive diplomat and strong ally of the French. During the

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, Mamongazeda raised a party of Lake Superior Ojibwa to fight with the French, and were part of Montcalm's army at the

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. He lived to a very old age and was succeeded by his son, the famous chief and warrior,

Waubojeeg Waubojeeg, also written Waabojiig or other variants in Ojibwe, "White Fisher" (c. 1747–1793) was a warrior and chief of the Ojibwe people. He was born into the ''Adik'' (caribou) ''doodem'' (clan), some time in the mid-18th century near ''Zhaa ...

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References

* Schoolcraft, Henry R. (1847). ''Historical and Statistical Information concerning the History, Conditions and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States''. Vol. II * Warren, William W. (1851). ''History of the Ojibway People''. * Brazer, Marjorie Cahn (1993). ''Harps Upon the Willows: The Johnston Family of the Old Northwest''. Year of death missing Native American leaders Ojibwe people Year of birth unknown 18th-century Native Americans {{NorthAm-native-stub