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hard bed half naked and trembling with cold and hunger, he wept for a 
time, until, falling into a state between dreaming and waking, he fancied 
that a gentle voice said sympathisingly ; ‘ Thou poor Shinguakongse, 
thou art wretched, come to me!” He looked around him but could see 
nothing but a path hovering in the air which gleamed in the darkness 
and which, commencing at his bed, ran upwards through the door-way 
of his cabin. He knew it wasa way on which he must walk. He went 
upon it and rose higher and higher into heaven. There he found a house 
from which a man came to meet him wrapped from head to foot in white 
garments like a priest. “I called thee,O Shinguakongse, to me, to shew 
thee something glorious. Look thither towards the rising sun.” When 
Shinguakongse looked he perceived the entire field full of tepees and 
troops, among them the great tents of chiefs and a multitude of braves, 
warriors and leaders sitting together at the war council... ‘See,’ said 
the white robe, “ hereafter thou wilt be as grand as those thou seest there 
in the field, and wilt become thyself a mighty hero.” ... The glorious 
reminiscence of this dream remained to the boy and he became one of 
the greatest chiefs of his race, the Ojibways on Lake Michigan (Mitchi- 
gaming) and on Lake Superior (Kitchi-Gami). After this dream he 
changed his name from “ The Little Pine” to Sagadjiveosse, meaning 
“when the sun rises,” and adored the sun from that time until in his 
later years he learned to revere the true Creator of the sun. 
Shinguakongse was always faithful to his people. In January, 1837, 
he addressed the Governor, Sir Francis Head, in a long letter urging the 
government to build houses for his people as had been promised. Ata 
great Indian gathering on Manitoulin [sland in August following, Shin- 
guakorgse represented his band of St. Mary’s River and objected to a 
removal of the principal council fire to Manitoulin Island. When a 
grown lad his mother toox him to see his father, then serving at Fort 
Detroit. The officer gazed with pleasure on the young savage. He was 
proud of his manly beauty, and wished to educate him as a white man 
and to procure him a commission in the British service. But no! Shin- 
guakongse loved his mother, his tribe and the beautiful Northland too 
well, he would not forsake them. His father dismissed him with 
presents, and retained a paternal interest in him until his death. 
In all wars Shinguakongse was on the British side. He was at Fort 
Malden and in the battle of Moraviantown. Had he been a white man, 
knighthood would have followed his achievements. He was made chief 
of his tribe and received many medals, which he never wore but dis- 
tributed among the young warriors. He represented the Garden River 
