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Indians, and was the first to sign the important treaty made by Mr. W. 
B. Robinson, at Sault Ste. Marie in September, 1850. He was offered 
medals and other honours by the Americans, which he declined. He 
had, with a large party of Canadian Indians, joined the force gathered 
for the attack on the Michigan stronghold at Macinac on July 17th, 1812. 
When the mode of attack was considered, Captain Roberts called on 
the Ojibway chief for his adyice. He asked for time to consider, but 
the next morning he said, “I have dreamed, Captain.” “I have 
dreamed too,” the commander replied, “let us compare our dreams.” 
Then Shinguakongse gave his dream or advice, which was shortly, that 
early the next morning while the fort was in fog and darkness, the 
Indians should paddle out in their canoes round the island, climb the 
heights and attack in the rear, while the British leader, with his troops 
with great noise of drum and guns attacked the Americans in the front. 
Captain Roberts answered: “Thou didst dream well, Shinguakongse, 
and I have dreamed also like thee; let us set to work quickly.” The 
advice was taken, the dream was fulfilled. The post was the Gib- 
raltar of what was then North-western Canada. It controlled the fur 
trade and the Upper Lakes. An attempt was made to retake Macinac 
two years later, but it remained a British post until given up when peace 
was declared in 1814. 
When the war was over, he followed the British and came to Garden 
River, where a lob-tree of pine was erected before his lodge, on which 
flew the red Union Jack. He was long a leader of his people, and 
headed several expeditions into the Sioux country from Lake Superior 
to the Mississippi. He was then a pagan, and full of superstition. His 
medicine bags contained recipes for magic incantations, which he 
valued most highly. For these he had, at various times, paid in beaver 
and other skins, what was calculated by Mr. Kohl as amounting to 
$30,000. But, under the ministrations of Dr. McMurray, he became a 
Christian, and settled at the Indian village of Riviere au Desert, highly 
esteemed by his people and the English. As he lay in his illness, the 
red folk prepared and put up a second flag-staff before his house, with a 
new flag upon it; but he died, leaving a worthy family, one of whom, 
Augustin Shingwauk, gave his name to the Shingwauk Home. It was 
found that the old chief had, shortly before his death, destroyed all his 
papers and birch-barks, painted dreams, songs and dances. (d.) 
Mr. J. G. Kohl, the German traveller and author, visited the north 
shore of Lake Superior in 1858, soon after the decease of Shinguakongse, 
(d) ** Kitchi-Gami,” by J. G. Kohl, cap. 23. ‘‘ The Canadian Indian,” pp. 153, 343. ‘'The Georgian 
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