Tagwagane

Chief Tagwagané (

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: ''Dagwagaane'', "Two Lodges Meet") (c. 1780–1850) was an

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( Ojibwa) sub-chief of the

La Pointe Band La Pointe Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe: ''Mooningwanekaaning Gichigamiwininiwag'', "The Lake Superior Men at the Place Abundant with the Yellow Flickers") are a historical Ojibwa band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, located about what now ...

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, located in the Chequamegon area in the first half of the 19th century. He was of the ''Ajijaak-

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'' (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

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, Father Chrysostom Verwyst, according to the

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, was informed by Chief Tagwagané of a

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plate his family used for time reckoning. Based on the description Verwyst gave,

William Whipple Warren William Whipple Warren (May 27, 1825 – June 1, 1853) was a historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. The son of Lyman Marcus Warren, an American fur trader and Mary Cadotte, the Ojibwe-Metis daughter of fur trader ...

concluded that Chief Tagwagané's ancestors first arrived in the Chequamegon Bay area sometime around 1490. 1780 births 1850 deaths People from Wisconsin Native American leaders Ojibwe people Native American people from Wisconsin 18th-century Native Americans 19th-century Native Americans {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub