46 THE MENOMINI INDIANS [eth.ann.14 



2. A'kwine'mi (Tsheka'tshake'mau) of the Owa'sse doda'mi, married 



(name of wife unknown) and had issue. 



(3) I. Osh'kusli. 



(4) II. Oshkiq'hina'niu T . 



3. O.sh'kosh (A'kwine'mi) "Bear's Claw;" of tlie Owa'sse doda'ini, 



boru 1795, died August 21, 1858. Osh'kosh was a celebrated 

 character; Mr Grignon, who knew him personally, says: ] 



Osh-kosh, and bis brother Osh-ka-he-nah-niew, or The Young Man, are 

 grandsons of Cha-kau-cko-ka-ma, or The Hid King, so long the grand chief 

 of the nation, and whose place Osh-kosh, by inheritance, has possessed 

 since 1827. As we have seen, Osh-kosh was upon the war-path in 1812-14, 

 under the special superintendence of Tomah, and under Stambaugh in 

 1832. The word Osh-kosh signifies brave, and such this chief has always 

 proved himself. He is now sixty-two years of age, while his brother, 27ie 

 Young Man, whose name begins to be a misnomer, is now fifty-one. Osh- 

 kosh is only of medium size, possessing much good sense and ability, but 

 is a great slave to strong drink, and two of his three sons surpass their 

 father in this beastly vice. 



Keferring to the treaty of Butte des Morts, in 1827, General 

 Albert G. Ellis 2 says: 



It was at this treaty, that Oshkosh. the present head Chief of the Menomo- 

 nees, was first recognized. After the Councir was open, Gov. Cass said : 

 " We have observed for some time the Menomonees to be in a bad situa- 

 tion as to their chiefs. There is no one we can talk to as the head of the 

 nation. If anything should happen, we want some man, who has author- 

 ity iu the nation, that we can look to. You appear like a flock of geese, 

 ■without a leader, some fly one way and some another. Tomorrow, at the 

 opening of the Council, we shall appoint a principal chief of the Menomo- 

 nees. We shall make enquiry this afternoon, and try to select the proper 

 man. We shall give him the medal, and expect the Menomonees to respect 

 him." 



The following note respecting Osh'kosh, is quoted at secoud 

 hand from Lyman 0. Draper, 3 and relates to the time of the 

 same treaty: 



On August 7th, two young men were called in front of the commission- 

 ers (one named Oiscoss, alias Claw, the other was (ailed Carron). Col. 

 McKinney then addressed them, and put medals around theft necks. Oiscoss 

 or Oskoshe, . . . was made head chief, and the future organ of com- 

 munication with the Commissioners. A short story, will show who Oiscoss 

 was, and what a "proper person" was found iu him. One morning, at 

 dawn of day, about a year previous to the treaty of Butte des Morts, a 

 young half breed Indian, who was a distant relative of Mrs. Jourdan, was 

 paddling in his canoe down Hell Creek, a branch of the Fox River. It was 

 still dark, so that objects could not be distinctly discerned. As he glided 

 by the tall rushes growing near the bank, he observed them move, as if 

 some animal was among them. Supposing it to be a deer, he fired at the 

 spot where he saw the motion, and then paddled through an opening in 

 the reeds to see the effect of his shot. To his inexpressible horror, he 



1 Seventy-two years' Recollections of Wisconsin, in Rep. and Col. Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin, vol. iii, 

 1857, p. 285. 

 •Coll. Hist. Soc. of Wis. for 1855. vol. ii, 1856, p. 430, note. 

 •Ibid. , pp. 430, 431 ; quoted from Hanson's Lost Prince, or Life of Rev. Eleazer Williams. 



