54 THE MENOMINI INDIANS [eth.ahh.M 



Menomonee River, of Chippewa, the chief and all his family, save two 

 children by another marriage, sickened and died during the ensuing winter. 

 Glode was then not very far from sixty-four years of age. He was a 

 tall and well-proportioned man, of great personal prowess; sometimes at 

 a ball-play, when two or three would pitch on to him to keep him back, he 

 would dash ahead, not seeming in the least to mind them. As the orator 

 of his nation, he was a fine speaker, and his speeches were sensible and 

 to the purpose. He was a very successful hunter and trapper — accom- 

 plishments quite as popular with the Indians, as to be able to speak well 

 on public occasions. 1 



Kouot' was married, but the name of his wife is not known. 

 He died in 1804, and had children — 



(6) I. Konot', 



(7) II. Ka'roii, 



(8) III. Dzho'seqkwai'o, 



(9) IV. Sha'not, 



(10) V. Margaret, 



(11) VI. A'shawa'kiinau. 



3. ToMAU' (Carron); known also as Toman, and Toinah. He was born 

 at Old Carron's village, opposite- Green Bay, on the western 

 bank of Fox river, about the year 1752. 2 Mr Bidclle 3 says he 

 was a British Indian, while Shu'nien (a grandson) informed 

 the present writer that he came from Montreal, his mother in 

 all probability having belonged to the Abnaki tribe. Con- 

 cerning' Toman' Mr Grignon says: 



Tomah was in early life regarded as a chief, and from my earliest recol- 

 lection, he seemed to be as much respected, and as influential, as Glode, 

 though the latter as his father's successor as chief speaker or orator of 

 the nation, really held the highest rank; and upon Glode's death, in 1804, 

 he became practically the head of the Menomoneea, though Cha-kan-cho- 

 ka-ma, or The Old King, was nominally the head chief, and out-lived 

 Tomah. 1 



Captain Zebulon M. Pike 5 met Tomau' in the spring of 1806, 

 above Clearwater river, on the upper Mississippi, where Tomau 

 and a large baud of Fols Avoin (Menomini) were engaged in 

 their winter hunt. He says of him: '-This Thomas is a fine 

 fellow, of a very masculine figure, noble and animated delivery, 

 and appears to be very much attached to the Americans." He 

 remarks furthermore: "This chief was an extraordinary 

 hunter; to instance his power, he killed forty elk and a bear 

 in one day; chasing the former from dawn to eve." 



Mr James W. Biddle, in his Recollections of Green Bay in 

 1816-17, remarks: 



Tecumseh in 1810 or 1811, when forming his great combination for driv- 

 ing the Americans back, who like the waves of the sea, were encroaching 



1 Grignon, in Rep. and Col. Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin, vol. iii, 1857, pp. 266, 267. 



2 Ibid., p. 2117. 



5 Ibid., vol. i, pp. 49-63. 



4 Ibid., vol. iii, p. 267. 



* An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, etc., Philadelpbia, 1810, pp. 77. 7-. 



