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Mistowasis, supported by five Councillors, was party to the treaties of 
1876, and lived until a recent day, seeing many of his people adopting 
the Christian religion and ways of life. His name is still attached to a 
reserve. The addresses of these and other chiefs at treaty making are 
remarkable for beauty of diction, sagacity and patriotic care for the 
future of their people. 
We must conclude with a reference to a heroic character whose poetic 
spirit, transmitted through his descendants, has shed a lustre as of an 
autumn sunset, over our Northland. 
WAUB-OJEEG, (the King Fisher). When Quebec was taken and the 
Marquis of Montcalm fell, Mamongazida (the Loon’s-foot), a Chippewa 
chief, was by his side. He was the ruler of Chegoimiegon, bearing the 
totem of the Adik or American reindeer. After the capitulation, 
Mamongazida gave in his allegiance to Sir W. Johnson at Niagara and 
received the king’s medal. Waub-Ojeeg was the second son of this 
chief, and was born under the British flag. As described by Schoolcraft 
he had a piercing black eye, stood six feet six in his moccasins, a Saul 
among the people, was spare and lightly built but of great strength, 
activity and endurance. He became chief, and for the twenty years 
prior to his death in 1793, was the ruling spirit of his tribe. He some- 
times led their warriors against the Outagamies or Foxes, and the Sioux. 
He was a mighty hunter and claimed as his preserve all the country 
from Chegoimiegon or La Pointe, near Sault Ste. Marie, to the River 
Brile, at Fort du Lac in Wisconsin, and all caught poaching there were 
liable to suffer death. His lodge at La Pointe, where were the Council 
fire and seat of Government of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, was 
always well supplied with meat of deer and bear. It wassixty feet long, 
and in its centre was a post rising above the roof, on top of which was 
the carved figure of an owl, which turned with the wind as a weather 
vane. It also indicated the presence of the lord of the soil, for when he 
was off on his hunts or other expeditions, the owl was removed. 
Waub-Ojeeg was twice married ; the eldest child of his second wife 
was Neéngai. John M. Johnston, a young Irish gentleman engaged in 
the fur trade, had occasion to meet the Chippewa chief in trading at 
Chegoimiegon, where the beautiful Neéngai was to be seen, and to see 
her was to love her. When he asked the chief for her hand, the old 
warrior, who was an affectionate father, demurred, saying, “Return, 
young man, with your load of skins to Montreal, and if there the women 
of the pale faces do not put my child out of your mind, return hither in 
the spring and we will talk farther; she is young and can wait.” 
