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town chief of Ninstints. — Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 277, 1905. 



Sha. The doubtful Snake clan of the 

 Yuchi. 

 Ca.— Speck, Yuchi Inds., 70, 1909 (e=s/0- 



Shaa. A Yurok village on lower Kla- 

 math r., close to Kepel and about 12 m. 

 below the mouth of Trinity r., n. w. Cal. 

 Shaa.— A. L. Kroeber, inf n, 1907. Schaitl.— Gibb.s 

 (1851) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 13s, 18.^3. 



Shabanshksh ( Cdbaiickc). A fornier vil- 

 lage of the Tlakluit 1 m. below The Dalles 

 of Columbia r., Wash. (e. s.) 



Shabawywyagun {Shdbtchveagdn, from 

 shdbo, shdbw, 'through,' 'from side to 

 side'; -u-ewe, 'sound'; -aydn, nominal 

 formative: 'sound heard from one side 

 to another': a sound heard through 

 other sounds. — Gerard). An Ottawa vil- 

 lage about the year ISOO, ajjparently on 

 the E. shore of L. Michigan. 

 Chab-way-way-gun. — Prairie du Chien Treaty 

 (1829) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 164. 1873. Shab-a-wy- 

 wy-a-gun. — Tanner, Narr., 37, 1S30. 



Shabonee (the name is in dispute; by 

 some he is said to have been named from 

 Capt. Jacques de Chambly; by others the 

 name is said to be of Potawatomi deriva- 

 tion and to signify 'built like a bear' ). A 

 Potawatomi chief, grand nephew of Pon- 

 tiac, born onMaumee r., 111., in 1775; died 

 in Morris, Grundy co., 111., July 17, 1859. 

 His father was an Ottawa who fought 

 under Pontiac. The son, who was a man 

 of fine parts and magnificent presence, 

 emigrated at an early age with a part 

 of his tribe to Michigan, and, becoming 

 one of Tecumseh's lieutenants, fought by 

 his side when he was killed at the battle 

 of the Thames. Incensed at the treat- 

 ment of the Indian allies by the British 

 commander, he and Sauganash trans- 

 ferred their allegiance to the Americans. 

 Joining the Potawatomi, among whom 

 he married, he was chosen peace chief 

 of the tribe and was their spokesman 

 at the council with the representatives 

 of the Government at Chicago in Aug. 

 1836. In the Winne]);igo and Black 

 Hawk wars he performed invaluable 

 services for the white pioneers, time 

 and again saving the settlements from 

 destruction by timely warnings. When 

 the Winnebago rose in 1827 he visited the 

 Potawatomi villages to dissuade them 

 from taking up arms, and at the village 

 of Geneva Lake, Wis., he was made a 

 prisoner and threatened with death. As 

 the white man's friend he encountered 

 the ill will of a large part of the Indians, 

 but his influence over his own tribe was 

 sufficient to restrain it from joining in a 

 body the forces of Black Hawk, who twice 

 went to Shabonee and tried to enlist him 

 in his cause. At a council of the allied 

 tribes in Feb. 1832, Shabonee espoused 

 the cause of the whites and endeavored to 

 convince Black Hawk that his proposed 

 uprising would only bring disaster to the 



Indians. Unsuccessful in his endeavor, 

 he and his eon mounted their ponies at 

 midnight, and starting from a point near 

 the present Princeton, 111., warned the 

 settlers both e. and w. of the intended 

 outbreak, Shabonee finally reaching Chi- 

 cago in time to put the inhabitants on 

 their guard. The Sauk and Foxes in 

 revenge attempted many times to murder 

 him, and killed his son and his nephew. 

 When under the treaties of 1836 the 

 Potawatomi migrated beyond the Mis- 

 sissippi, Shabonee went with them, 

 but returned shortly to the two sections 

 of land at his village "near the Pawpaw 

 Grove," in De Kalb co., which the Gov- 

 ernment had awarded him under the 

 treaties of July 29, 1829, and Oct. 20, 



1832, as a reward for his services. At 

 the solicitation of his tribe he joined 

 them again, but pined for civilization, and 

 in 1855 again returned only to find that 

 speculators had bought at public sale his 

 two sections of land on the ground that 

 he had abandoned it. The citizens of 

 Ottawa, 111. , then bought him a small farm 

 on the s. bank of Illinois r., 2 m. above 

 Seneca, Grundy co., on which he passed 

 his remaining years. He received an an- 

 nuity of $200 from the Ciovernment for his 

 services in the Black Hawk war, which, 

 with contributions from friends, kept him 

 from want. A monument, consisting of 

 a large granite bowlder, was erected over 

 his grave in Evergreen Cemetery, at 



