Deeds Nations: Names beginning with 'A'

Aaouas / Aa8as [fl. 1747], Tionnontaté/Pétun chief of the Deer tribe, Hatinnionen clan; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Rachel Abbot / Anna Benigna [born c.1736; murdered at Gnadenhütten by US militia on March 8, 1782], Delaware Nation by marriage; taken prisoner at Philadelphia at the age of 19; her infant child was murdered by Delaware chief Glikhican to "hasten their escape, despite her entreaties." She married and moved to Ohio with him around 1755; mother of Jacob and 5 other children who were living in Moraviantown [Fairfield] in 1818 (Gray: 275).

A-bee-ta-que-zic / Half Day [fl. 1827], Pottawatomie chief; signed the US Treaty for lands in Eastern Michigan, September 19, 1827 (US 1837; Leighton: app. B3).

Abraham [fl. 1791, d. 1810], Delaware Nation; came from Ohio to Die Warte then on to near Amherstburg with the Moravians; visited Detroit on July 12, 1791; moved on to settle at Fairfield; died at Fairfield in 1810 (Hamil 1951: 72; Lajeunesse: 164).

Acheton [fl. 1805-1820], Mississauga/Ojibwa chief, north shore Lake Ontario; signed: Surrender #13, Toronto Purchase, September 23, 1805, Surrender #14, Burlington, September 6, 1806, Surrender #22, Township of Toronto, February 28, 1820, and Surrender #23, west of Toronto, February 28, 1820 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 36, 50, 53).

From Surrender 13 (1805). See Canada 1891: Vol. 1, pg. 35.

Achoabmet [fl. 1750], Ojibwa war chief; pledged to fight the English; gave himself as a hostage to the French and as a result his tribe obtained the spoils of war from their battles with the English; lived near Detroit around 1750 (Schmalz: 47).

Adam [fl. 1836], Delaware Nation; signed Surrender #47, part of Moraviantown [Fairfield], October 25, 1836 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 115).

Ahbettuhwahnuhgund / Half a Cloud [fl. 1867-1886], Ojibwa chief, Kettle Point community; "a fine, broad shouldered, intelligent-looking man;" he lived in a large house at Kettle Point; he was christened Isaac when he converted to Christianity in January 1870 (Wilson: 27, 30-33, 56, 58-59). 'It is with great pleasure that I bestow also on you, the wife of the missionary, an Ojebway name. The name I am about to give you was the name of one of our sisters who has long since passed away from our midst, and it is our wish that her name should be retained among us. Your name therefore is Nahwegeezhegooqua [Lady of the Sky]' — Kettle Point 1867 (Wilson: 33).

Ainhahwooky / Ann Johnson [born on the Thames River in 1792; fl. 1848-1852], Munsee Nation, Upper Thames River [Muncey] community, probably married to Richard Woolfe [born in the U.S. in 1754; fl. 1852]; member of the Anglican church in 1848 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 26).

Sally Ainse / Sarah Ainisée / Ans / Hance / Hands / Hains / Higgins / Montour / Willson [born on the Susquehanna River 1728; died at Amherstburg c.1823], Oneida/Shawnee trader; married Andrew Montour around 1745 and lived on the island of Shamokin in Ohio; Sally Montour moved to Pennsylvania in 1751; left Montour and moved to the Mohawk River and Fort Stanwix, New York in 1756 where she was granted land in 1758; Sally Hance wintered at Long Point in 1766; Mrs. Ainse was trading at Mackinaw City in 1767; moved to Detroit in 1776; lived at Detroit until 1787 and at the Rivière La Tranche [Thames River] near the future site of Chatham from 1787 to 1806(?); married John Willson in the 1780s; signed the Ainse deed, north side of the Thames River from Lake St. Clair to Chatham, September 19, 1780; Sarah Anisée, Detroit merchant, ordered two bateaux of merchandise and liquors in 1780; issued a goods receipt, November 20, 1788; signed the Ainse deed on Rivière La Tranche [Thames River], October 11, 1789; sent a petition to Lord Dorchester in 1789 for legal title to her land on the Thames; wrote a letter, September 13, 1791; filed a petition to the Hesse land board, April 13, 1792; travelled to Newark where she met Simcoe in 1792; sent a petition to and met with the Essex-Kent land board on August 23, 1793; attended an Upper Canada Legislative Council meeting at Navy Hall with Simcoe on October 17, 1793; she was awarded land by acting Surveyor General Smith on November 3, 1793; acted as a messenger between Chief Brant and Chief Agushawa after Fallen Timbers in 1794 and delivered Brant's pro-British speeches to Agushuwa on January 26, 1795; signed the Ainse gift of land, January 26, 1795; her lands were exempted from Surrender #2 by the Ojibwa and Odawa signatories, but the Essex-Kent land board never recognized this, in spite of her support from Governor Simcoe and Joseph Brant [letter, Detroit, June 28, 1795]; on February 5, 1795 she wrote to Brant and told him that Agushawa, Wayapiersenwah and others were negotiating with the US; moved to Amherstburg around 1806; wrote a petition to Gore for land in 1807, and a petition to Sheaffe for land in 1813 (Cruikshank, vol. III: 274, 287, 310, vol. IV: 45, 196, 238; Fraser: 170-173, 238-239, 243-246; Gray: 91; Hamil 1939: 2-27; Hamil 1951: 14; Quaife 1928 vol. I: 193-194; DCB vol. IV,: 7-8; MPHSC vol. XII: 173, vol. XIX: 589, vol. XX: 395). 'She said she "was the first that ever settled on the aforesaid lands [Thames River at Chatham] before any white people ever thought to settle there, thinking to have it for herself and friends who were loyalists, and has served his Majesty since and before the late unhappy rebellion"—petition, May 6, 1791 (Hamil 1939: 8).

Aishkunkg / Phoebe Hawk [born on the Thames River in 1822; fl. 1852], Munsee, Upper Thames River [Muncey] community, married to Thomas Hawk [born on the Grand River in 1820; fl. 1852] (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 26).

William Albert [fl. 1872-1883], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey; signed Surrender #126, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 18, 1872, and Surrender #210, September 28, 1883 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 294, vol. II: 146).

James Alway / James Alwney [born at Amherstburg in 1817; fl. 1852-1890], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey, married to Mary [born in the U.S. in 1810; fl. 1852]; James Alwney signed: Surrender #184, October 6, 1881, Surrender #205, hunting agreement, July 25, 1883, and Surrender #210, September 28, 1883; James Alway signed Surrender #289, July 25, 1890 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. II: 94, 139, 146, vol. III: 17).

Anáiásá [fl. 1761], Huron chief / speaker, Detroit area; attended a Grand Council with William Johnson at Detroit, September 9, 1761; Anaiasa replied to Johnson's opening speech on September 10th, pointing out Seneca chief Kayashota as the carrier of a war belt; Anáiásá addressed a meeting with Johnson in the Huron Village near Windsor on September 17, 1761 (Peckham: 82, 86; PSWJ vol. III: 483-486, 496-497). 'Brother You know that the greater part of our Warriors agreeable to the request made to them last year by Mr. Croghan are gone to War against the Cherokees for which reason we beg you will have pity on them, as when they return home they will be quite naked, we likewise pray that you will not omit any thing for our service & that the Great Man who governs all, will not forget us, that you will order our Guns & Hatchets to be mended for us as also procure us some Hoes for our Corn of which we stand in need as of anything else...' —Detroit, September 17, 1761 (PSWJ vol. III: 496).

Angouirot / Ang8irot [fl. 1740; died before 1747], Wyandot/Huron chief, Turtle tribe, Entihoronnon (people of the great prairie) clan; Noyon was told on August 26, 1740 that only Ang8irot, third chief of the Hurons, was opposed to the move to Montréal; Ang8irot arrived in Detroit from Sandusky on September 16, 1740 and directly contradicted that information, saying that Detroit was unsafe for the Hurons and he wanted a safe place to live; he had lived in the small village but Augwitirot's widow moved to the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; alcoholic; ally of Nicholas Orontony, Potier called him janus quirinus (Goulet: 5, 10; Lajeunesse: 35-37; MPHSC vol. XXXIV: 172, 201-204). 'Many have told me that you do not like him; that you did not admit him to any council; that his people had spoken and he had said nothing; and that, when he saw me, he would let me know that he has reason to complain, since you give him out to be a dangerous and pernicious person' —Beauharnois to Richardie, Detroit, June 14, 1741 (MPHSC vol. XXXIV: 202).

Widow Angouirot / Widow Ang8irot [fl. 1747], Wyandot/Huron, Turtle tribe, Entihoronnon (people of the great prairie) clan wife of Chief Angouirot; Widow Augwitirot lived in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census ( Goulet: 10; Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Anienouindes / Anien8indes [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Annamakance / Nimmekance / Namekance / Lightning [born c.1720; died c.1827 at the age of 107], Sarnia Ojibwa chief and warrior; chief of the Rapids Tribe located 1 mile south-east of Point Edward prior to their removal to Fort Gratiot; Nimmekeence / Little Thunder, original Sarnia Ojibwa community chief; moved to the Sarnia area [4 miles south of Black River] at the age of 105, son of Chief Kioscance, father of Ojibwa chief Anchau [Antler totem] and Sarnia Ojibwa chief Mesquahwegezighk / Red Sky, grandfather of Sarnia Ojibwa Chief Zahk shko da wa / Nicholas Plain [last hereditary chief of the Sarnia band]; A-ni-mi-kai-nee, Ojibwa war chief, attended a council at Detroit on June 14, 1778; Animithens, Ojibwa chief, co-signed [with an Antler totem] a gift of land between Lake St. Clair and the River Huron to William Tucker, at Detroit, September 22, 1780; Annimekans, Ojibwa chief, co-signed a gift of land on the St. Clair River to Richard Cornwall, at Detroit, October 28, 1780; Ne-me-kass / Little Thunder, Ojibwa chief, signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795; An-na-ma-kance, Ojibwa chief, signed [with an Antler totem] Surrender #6, London Township, Surrender #7, Sombra Township, and accompanying maps, September 7, 1796; Ne-me-kas / Little Thunder, Ojibwa chief, signed the US Treaty of Detroit ceding the west half of Lake St. Clair, etc., November 17, 1807; Anmakeys, Ojibwa chief, signed [with an Antler totem] a deed to William Thorn Junior for land on the east shore of the St. Clair River, August 28, 1798; Namikance was with Patrick Sinclair, commander of the British garrison at Pine River [St. Clair City, Michigan] 1812-1814; Animikince, Le Chef, signed [with an Antler totem] a petition? on June 30, 1816; Nimecance / Lightning maintained cornfields south of Port Huron in 1817; Ani-mick-ence / Animikence, Ojibwa chief, signed: Surrender #27½, Watford area, April 26, 1825, and Surrender #29, Sarnia to Goderich, July 10, 1827 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 021-IT 024 / IT 026-IT 028; PAO RG1 vol. 8 env. I: 03534-03535, 03581-03582; Canada 1891 vol. I: 17, 19, 65, 71; US 1837: 54, 136; Goodspeed: 22-23; Leighton: app. B5, B8, B8a; Plain: 2-3, 5; Quaife 1928 vol. I: 180; MPHSC vol. V: 552, vol. IX: 442, vol. XX: 417). Trout = name: coss, thunder = animikki (Piggott and Grafstein).

From PAO RG1, A-1-7, Vol. 8, Env. 1: 03534 (1798).

From Surrender #7 (1796). PAC, RG10, Vol. 1840, IT 027.

Ano-ta-win / Anatowin [fl. 1825-1827], Ojibwa chief; Ano-ta-win, Ojibwa chief, signed Surrender #27½, Watford area, April 26, 1825; Annotowin, Ojibwa chief, signed Surrender #29, Sarnia to Goderich, July 10, 1827 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 65, 71; Leighton, app. B8, B8a).

George Anse [fl. 1843-1849], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island; signed: Surrender #53½, Moore Township, August 18, 1843, and Surrender #59, Moore Township, August 18, 1849 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 128, 147).

Nathanial Anthony [fl. 1857], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; signed Surrender #83, part of Moraviantown, April 9, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I : 215).

Henry Antoine [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1807; fl. 1852-1872], Oneida chief, married Hannah [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1821; fl. 1852]; signed Surrender #127, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 17, 1872 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 296).

Jacob Antoine [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1831; fl. 1852-1872], Oneida Nation, married Jenny [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1830; fl. 1852]; signed Surrender #127, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 17, 1872 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 296).

Aoes [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté Nation; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Old Aondatorenha [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté woman; lived in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37).

James Armstrong [fl. 1836], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; signed Surrender #47, part of Moraviantown, October 25, 1836 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 115).

George Aron [fl. 1884], Oneida Nation; signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

Aronissa [fl. 1747], Huron/Wyandot chief; lived in a French house in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; the house burned down on January 18, 1747 (Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Aquetabani [fl. 1788], Ojibwa chief; signed the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO, MU 2099 OS 1-4).

Ashquawonabie / George Ashgwaywonabie / Ashquaquonaby / Ashgwonabie [fl. 1854-1872], Ojibwa Nation, Sarnia community; George Ashgwagwonabie, Ojibwa, signed: Surrender #71½, Great Western Railway right of way, May 10, 1854, Surrender 80½, Stag Island, January 19, 1857, and Surrender #266, May 7, 1855; George Ashquaquonaby, Ojibwa, signed Surrender #107, December 13, 1866; George Ashquagonaby, Ojibwa, signed Surrender #119, May 5, 1871; George Ashquaquonaby, Ojibwa, signed Surrender #128, Indian Mission lot, May 1, 1872 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 193, 211, 252, 275, 298; vol. II: 256).

Askiby (1) [fl. 1778-1819], Pottawatomie chief, Detroit area; Esh-kee-bee, Pottawatomie chief, attended a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Eskebee, Pottawatomie chief, gave land on the Detroit River to Thomas Williams, July 28, 1780; Askiby, Pottawatomie chief of Detroit, signed a grant of land on the Rivière Ecorse to Jean Baptiste Réaume, and land on the Detroit River at the Rivière à la Carrière Menning to James Abbott, December 9, 1785; Eshkibie, signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800; Ashkebee, Pottawatomie Nation, signed US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817; Ash-ke-wee (2) [born c.1787 at Rock Village, Indiana; died at Cape Croker in 1875], Pottawatomie Nation; moved to Milwaukee before 1832; served with the US army against Black Hawk; moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin; emigrated to Walpole Island in 1837; {skebe, Pottawatomie chief, led the 1837 migration to Walpole Island. Ashkebee / Ash-kee-bee (3) [fl. 1875-1883], Ojibwa chief, Walpole Island community; signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875; Ash Kee Bee, Pottawatomie chief of Walpole Island, signed Surrender #296, lease of St. Anne's island, February 6, 1882; Ash-kee-bee, Ojibwa second chief, signed Surrender #209, December 26, 1883; the family name became White (Canada 1891 vol. I: 30, vol. II: 7, 145, vol. III: 30; US 1837: 216; Clifton 1975: 74, 121; Lajeunesse: 208; Nin.Da. Waab.Jig: 64; Quaife 1928 vol. I: 175, 212; MPHSC vol. IX: 443, vol. XII: 625, vol. XVI: 676).

John Baptist Askin / Jean-Baptiste Askin / Johnny Askin [born April 10, 1788 at Detroit; died November 14, 1869 at London, Ont.], militia officer / interpreter / civil servant, son of John Askin Junior and an Indian woman from west of Detroit, grandson of John Askin Senior and Manette (Monette), his Indian slave, he was baptised a few weeks after his father's marriage, raised by John Askin Senior, married Miss Van Allen; he was at the capture of Michilimakinac on July 17, 1812; arrived at Detroit after its surrender; fought at the Battle of Frenchtown, January 13, 1813; moved to Vittoria in 1819; appointed clerk of the peace in 1819 and clerk of the district court in 1820; moved to London, Ontario around 1826; he was the first president of the Middlesex Agricultural Society in 1837; raised volunteers in the Rebellion of 1837, he destroyed the press and type of the St. Thomas Liberal, took part in action against Duncombe, and was promoted to Colonel on February 3, 1838; lived at Woodview in south London (Casselman: l, li; Quaife 1928 vol. I: 69n; DCB vol. IX: 8-9.; ).

John Askin [born at Chatham in 1802; fl. 1852-1861], Ojibwa chief, Bear Creek [Sydenham River] community, married to Mrs. Askin [born on Bear Creek in 1812; fl. 1861]; lived at lower Muncey in 1852; on March 23, 1855 he signed an invitation to the Superintendent of the Indian Department (PAC RG10 vol. 453; PAC Canada 1851-1852; PAC Canada 1861).

As-si-ke-nack / Sikenac / Assiginak / Siggenak / Le Tourneau / Blackbird [born at Wawgawnawkezee, 1768; died at Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island, November 3, 1866], brother of Apawkausegun; Siggenak / Le Tourneau was an 18th century Pottawatomie chief at Milwaukee, he left there in 1789 to visit Makinac; Assiginac attended the Sulpician Mission School at Oka, Québec where he was baptised as Jean-Baptiste; As-si- ke-nack, Odawa/Pottawatomie war chief / interpreter; "a great drunk in his youth"; father of Odawa teacher Francis Assikinack [1824-1863]; possibly took part in the capture of Michilimakinac in 1812; Blackbird, northern Ojibwa chief, spoke for 14 hours on July 18, 1812 at Michilimakinac while urging support for the English; he commanded the Indian forces that attacked the column abandoning Fort Dearborn [Chicago] August 15, 1812, and accepted the surrender of the US commander, Captain Heald; leader of Odawa warriors in July 1813 on the Niagara Peninsula after the Battle of Beaver Dams, and participated in skirmishes there; probably took part in the capture of Prairie du Chien in 1814; became assistant to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs; Chief Assegemach was sent to proclaim peace to the tribes on the eastern side of Lake Michigan on May 8, 1815; Assenach was employed as an interpreter at Drummond Island on December 16, 1815, Assigenach was still employed there in 1819; Sheginark / Black Bird, Ojibwa chief, signed the US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817; Assiginac moved to Manitoulin Island around 1836; chief orator and interpreter at the Manitoulin Island council of August 1, 1837; became a Roman Catholic catechist; J.B Assiginack supported and signed Surrender #94, for Manitoulin Island, October 6, 1862 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 23, 236-237; US 1837: 216; Armstrong, J.: 17; Berton 1980: 194-195; Clifton 1975: 13, 41; Clifton, Cornell and McClurken: 55; Horsman: 116; Jameson: 500, 502; McClurken: 5-6, 19, 30; Petrone: 27, 73; Schmalz: 114-115; Sugden: 203; Canadian Encyclopedia vol. II: 1341; DCB vol. VII: 821, vol. IX: 9-10; MPHSC vol. XV: 712, 713n, 714n, vol. XVI: 246, 292, 332, 394, 649, 675). 'Brother, I have listened with a good deal of attention to the wish of our father. If the Big Knives, after they kill people of our colour, leave them without hacking them to pieces, we will follow their example. They have themselves to blame. The way they treat our killed, and the remains of those that are in their graves in the west, makes our people mad when they meet the Big Knives. Whenever they get any of our people into their hands they cut them like meat into small pieces. We thought the white people were Christians. They ought to show us a better example.' —Ten Mile Creek, July 18, 1813 (Schmalz: 115).

Assinowee [fl. 1786], Odawa chief, Detroit area, signed [with a Deer(?) totem] a surrender of land, south side of the Detroit River and Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], May 15, 1786 - it would eventually be registered as Surrender #116 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 272; Lajeunesse: 165-166; MPHSC vol. XXIV: 27-29).

Assoguaw [fl. 1785], Odawa chief, Detroit area, signed [with a Bear totem] the Jacob Schieffelin deed, south side of the Detroit River, opposite Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], October 13, 1783 (Lajeunesse: 155; MPHSC vol. XX: 195).

Atchechank [fl. c.1800], Grand River Mississauga/Ojibwa chief, Fish Hawk clan; under principal Chief Pokquan; asked Chief Brant to handle his Nation's affairs with the Government (Schmalz: 101-102, 283).

Athick [fl. 1783], Ojibwa chief; signed the Ainse deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] near Chatham, October 11, 1783 (Fraser: 173).

Ationcony [fl. 1786], Shawnee/Chaouanon chief; signed the US Big Miamis [Maumee River] Treaty, January 31, 1786 (US 1837; MPHSC vol. XXIV: 24).

Atschiwa [fl. 1805-1809], Ojibwa from Bear Creek [Sydenham River]; Atschiwa grew crops in Kitegan and visited the Denke mission, January 14, May 23 and 28, 1806 (Denke 1991: 10, 15-16). 'In the evening Atschiwa came dragging a young deer over the snow which he had just shot. He laid the deer before our door and asked us to take it as a gift. When we accepted he was full of joy and after he had refreshed himself, he happily went home.' —Bear Creek, Jan. 14, 1806 (Denke 1991: 10).

ÌAt-ta-wa-kie [fl. 1764-1790; died March 18, 1840(?)], Odawa chief(s); Attawatky, Odawa chief, attended a peace congress of Western Nations with Ojibwa Chief Wasson at Detroit, September 7, 1764; Ot- ta-waa-kee, war chief, attended a council with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton at Detroit, June 14, 1778; Atta-wa-ki attended councils at Detroit, April 21 and April 26, 1781; At- ta-wa-kie attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with an illegible totem] Surrender #2, south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; Autokee, Odawa chief, signed a US Treaty in 1833 that exchanged common Odawa lands for small private lots; Autokee called a general council of the Odawas of Marais des Cygnes on March 13, 1840 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002, RG10 ser. II vol.13; Canada 1891 vol. I: 1; US 1837; Lajeunesse: 171; Leighton: app. B4; Unrau and Miner: 56-64; MPHSC vol. IX: 442, vol. X: 472, vol. XIII: 90; PSWJ vol. XI: 349, 442) Attawakie = Odawa King? (Rita Sands etc. pers. com., Walpole Island). '... doing great mischief by separating families and friends and making confusion all over the nation...[lying about] the Creator sending Meeker to the Indians'—to Baptist missionary Meeker, March 13, 1840 (Unrau and Miner: 64).

From Surrender #2 (1790). PAC RG10, Vol. 1840, IT 002.

Au-ruh-nau-suh-way [fl. 1848], Ojibwa, Walpole Island community; in 1848 he received presents from the Indian Department for wounds suffered in the War of 1812; (Richardson: 100). Au-ruh-nau- suh-way = Dim Ray (Richardson: 100).

A-wun-nwabe / Awanwa-pe / Mist Man / John Tecumseh Henry [born near Blenheim in 1827; fl. 1845-1903], Ojibwa chief / interpreter, Caradoc [Muncey] community, oldest son of Maungwudaus / George Henry, married Nancy [1838; fl. 1861]; A-wun-nwabe [bird of thunder] toured European theatres with a troupe of Ojibwa from southern Ontario, 1845 to 1851; he settled at Muncey in 1852, farming 13 acres; John Henry signed: Surrender #126, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 18, 1872, Surrender #154, August 31, 1876, Surrender #184, October 6, 1881, Surrender #200, December 21, 1882, Surrender #205, hunting agreement, July 25, 1883, Surrender #210, September 28, 1883, and Surrender #220, September 29, 1885, Surrender #274, July 31, 1889, and Surrender #289, July 25, 1890; he lived at Muncey in 1903 (PAC Canada 1851-52; 1861; Canada 1891 vol. I: 294, vol. II: 30, 94, 139, 146, 163, 267, vol. III: 17; Rogers: 767; Smith 1987: 218).

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