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Kabaki [born on the Thames River in 1842; fl. 1852], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey community, probably the son of Kahzhuhgans and Maudwagasemmog (PAC Canada 1851-1852). Kabish [killed at the Battle of Moraviantown {Fairfield}, October 5, 1813], Odawa warrior (Sugden: 133). Kachjakadorodon / Kachradogha / Kachwadochon [fl. 1701], Onondaga sachem, Deer Tribe; he attended the Albany Conference with Governor Nansan, July 9, 1701; placed southern Ontario hunting grounds under the protection of the British Crown on July 13, 1701; surrendered an area east of the Niagara River to the British Crown, September 14, 1701 (NYCD vol. IV: 801, 898, 910; Monture pers. com.). Kachnakaish / John Wampum [born on the Thames in 1818; fl. 1852-1881], Munsee chief, Muncey, married to Catherine [born on the Thames River in 1825; fl. 1852]; parents of Frank Wampum; they were members of the Anglican Church at Muncey in 1847; he occupied 20 acres and farmed 9 at Muncey in 1852; John Wampum signed Surrender #95, sale of timber from Munceye, September 26, 1862; he sold the Moraviantown [Fairfield] temperance hall for $187 in 1881 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 238; Goodspeed: 26; Gray: 312). Kagekumego / The Otter [fl. 1800], Ojibwa chief; signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800. (Canada 1891 vol. I: 30; Lajeunesse: 208). Kageskaiva [fl. 1800-1843(?)], Ojibwa chief; signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800; Quagegwau, Ojibwa chief, signed [with a Fish totem] a petition to the Queen in 1838 objecting to the illegal surrender of Indian lands; Kagivajiway, Ojibwa, lived at the Upper St. Clair River reserve, January 20, 1843 (Canada 1847: no. 20; Lajeunesse: 208; Schmalz: 136). Kahgswaghtaniunt / Coswentannea / Belt of Wampum / Old Belt / Le Collier Pendu / White Thunder [fl. 1753 onwards; died c.1762], Seneca/Mingo chief; lived on the Ohio River in 1753; joined Washington on his march to Fort Duquesne in 1754; he was with Braddock and retired to Harris' Ferry after Braddock's defeat in 1755; moved to New York in 1756; conferred with Johnson at Oswego in August 1759; he was at the fall of Montréal with British forces on September 8, 1760; visited Fort Niagara regularly in 1762 (Aquila: 241; DCB vol. III: 319-320). Kahkewaquonaby / Peter Jones [born at Burlington Heights, January 1, 1802; died at Echo Villa near Brantford, June 28, 1860], Grand River Mississauga/Ojibwa, Eagle clan; son of Tuhbenahneequay [daughter of Wapinose / Wahbansay] and Augustus Jones, Welsh surveyor who worked with chief Wapinose; he lived with Credit River Mississauga chief Captain Jim during the winter of 1811; raised by his mother until he was 14 in traditional Mississauga religious beliefs, lived with his father from 1816 to 1823; baptized in 1820 but converted on June 1, 1823; became a Christian Methodist missionary in 1824; elected to succeed Credit River Mississauga chief Wageezhegonne on January 1, 1829; married Eliza Field from England; on August 17, 1829, he attended a Methodist meeting in Westminster Township; he was superintendent of the Muncey Mission from 1841-1843 and 1848-1849; on August 4, 1845 he was photographed by Hill and Adamson in Edinburgh - he returned to Canada from Scotland in April, 1846; he witnessed Surrenders #58½b, #58½c, #58½d, and #58½e, for schools and churches at Muncey, February 3, 1849; he lived in London from May 18 to July 1849; he bought property near Brantford at Echo Place in 1849, and built a brick home in 1851 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 143-146; Kahkewaquonaby 1860, 1861; Petrone: 36-37; Smith 1987: 203, 213-214, figs.24, 25, 30). 'When I was young a grand feast was made for the purpose of giving me an Indian name, and of dedicating me to the guardian care of some particular god, according to the Indian fashion. I was then named Kahkewaquonaby, which literally means "sacred waving feathers," and refers to feathers plucked from the eagle, the sacred bird. By this name I was dedicated to the thunder god; the eagle being considered by the Indians the representative of the god of thunder' (Kahkewaquonaby 1860). Kahzhuhgans / The Wild Cat [fl. 1829-1852], Rivière aux Sables [Ausable River - Port Franks] Ojibwa chief; he was opposed to Christianity according to others, July 30, 1829; Kaukaugeens, Ojibwa warrior, signed [with a Beaver totem] a petition to the Queen in 1838 objecting to the illegal surrender of Indian lands; Kauzewanzh [born on Bear Creek in 1798; fl. 1852] married to Maudwagasemmog [born on Bear Creek in 1802; fl. 1852]; they were listed as "no sect" in 1852 (PAC RG10 vol. 453; PAC Canada 1851-1852; Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 243; Schmalz: 136). Kajaki / Kajake [died on Bear Creek {Sydenham River}, May 4, 1806], Ojibwa hunter, lived at Kitegan; he was a friend of Moravian missionary Denke; he visited and provided meat regularly for the missionaries in 1804, 1805 and 1806; went to Fort Malden to receive presents, November 11, 1804 and returned on November 23, his oldest son lived at Kitegan in that year; he attended the Great Council at the Miamis rapids [Maumee River], then returned home on July 24, 1805; bled on both arms by Denke, October 27, 1805 (Denke 1991: 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16; Denke 1990: 8-12). 'several nations will make war with the States but the Ojibwas, Odawas and Pottawatomies will only watch calmly'. Kan-tuck-ee-gun [fl. 1807-1815], Odawa Nation, married Pontiac; mother of one daughter and sons Otussa, Kasahda, Njikwisena, Shegenaba; lived on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Maumee [Miami] River with Otussa from 1807 to c.1815; Otussa lived there in 1825 (Peckham: 316). Karighwaycagh / Catherine [born on the Grand River c.1797; died at Moraviantown {Fairfield}, January 16, 1827], Munsee/Delaware Nation, her mother was Munsee and her father was white; she lived with her grandmother until she was 16; she was the second wife of John Norton, marring him in 1813; she was the mother of Tekonakaraa; went to live in Scotland with her husband's relatives in 1815-1816; returned to live on a farm on the Grand River; she was accused of sexual misconduct with Big Arrow in 1823; Big Arrow died of a wound suffered in a duel with Norton; she moved to Moraviantown in 1823 after Norton refused to see her again (Gray: 214; DCB vol. VI: 552-553). Charlot Kaské [fl. 1763-1765], Shawnee/ Chaouanon war chief, son of an anti-English German father and a Shawnee mother, married to an Englishwoman who had been captured as a teenager; carried Pontiac's appeal to the French for support in 1763; arrived at Fort de Chartres bearing a letter and belt from Pontiac on October 27, 1763; travelled on to New Orleans to appeal unsuccessfully to the governor; returned to Kaskaskia on the Ohio River to announce the support of the French in May 1765 (Peckham: 232, 245, 267-268, 274-275). Kau-gush [fl. 1848], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; in 1848 he received presents from the Indian Department for wounds suffered in the War of 1812 (Richardson: 100). Kau-gush = Gull (Richardson: 100). Kautabus [fl. 1792-1793], Mississauga/Ojibwa chief; he signed Surrender #3, Niagara River to Port Bruce, December 7, 1792, and an amended version, January 14, 1793 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 7; Morris: 18). Kayasota / Gaiachoton / Geyesutha / Guyasuta / Kayashoton / Kiashuta / Quiasutha / Kyasuta [born c.1725 on the Genesee River; died in 1794 on the Cornplanter Grant, Pennsylvania], Seneca/Mingo chief and diplomat, Ohio community; accompanied Washington on a mission demanding French withdrawal from Ohio in 1753; he was with the force that defeated Braddock in 1755; he conferred with Gouverneur Rigaud in Montréal in the same year; Kaiaghshota, Seneca chief, circulated a red wampum belt [war hatchet] in the Detroit area, proposed war on the British with Seneca Chief Tahaidoris, and attended and spoke at a Detroit Conference with Croghan, all in 1761; he was at the Siege of Fort Pitt in 1763; Ayashota, chief of the Five Nations of the Plains of Scioto, signed a preliminary peace treaty with the British at Niagara, August 12, 1764; Kaiashuta, Seneca chief, Ohio community, attended and spoke at a council at a camp at Tuskerawas, October 17, 1764; Keyashuta, Seneca chief, attended a council at the Muskingum, November 12, 1764; Keyashuta, Seneca chief, attended a congress at Fort Pitt, May 9, 1765; he attended a final peace conference at Johnstown with Pontiac, July 4-13, 1765; he attended councils with the Shawnee Nation in the spring and fall of 1773; Kayaghsotea, Seneca chief, Ohio community, attended a conference with William Johnson at Johnson Hall, January 5, 1774; Kayashuta, Mingo chief, presented grievances at Fort Pitt in 1775; he remained neutral on July 6, 1776 but joined the siege of Fort Stanwix on the side of the British in the summer of 1777; he fought at the Battle of Oriskany; Cayashuta was sent to keep the allegiance of the Western Indian Nations in 1780; Ca-ya-shu-ta, Seneca chief, attended a council at Detroit, April 26, 1781; Kayasota attacked Wheeling, West Virginia in July 1782; attended a peace council with Cornplanter and US General Wayne in 1783; settled on Cornplanter's grant of land in Pennsylvania in 1794 (PAC RG10 vol. 13; Peckham: 279; Tanner: 48; DCB vol. IV: 408-410; OAHS vol. VII: 57; PSWJ vol. XI: 330, 439, 461, 724, vol. XII: 1044, 1046, 1048-1049, 1059, vol. XIII: 254). 'I am heartily rejoiced to see you my Brethern all present, assembled at our fathers Council fire, and I take this opportunity to Greet you all. I have but little to say to you but I repeat to you again that we brownskins are but one, and that we the Six nations are come here to open your ears, to attend to what is good, or, whatever our father may recommend'—Detroit, April 26, 1781. Kays-hay [fl. 1778], Pottawatomie chief; attended a council at Detroit, June 14, 1778 (MPHSC vol. vol. IX: 443). Kay-yah-ge-waush [fl. 1857], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; he signed Surrenders #85 and #86, Peach Island, Detroit River, and Keshebahnelegoo Menesha Island, St. Clair River, July 21, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 220-221). Kebonecence / Kenebonecence [fl. 1805-1806], Mississauga/Ojibwa chief; signed: Surrender #13, Toronto Purchase, September 23, 1805, and Surrender #14, Burlington, September 6, 1806 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 34, 36).
Kecason [fl. 1788], Ojibwa chief; signed [with a Bear totem] the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO MU 2099 OS 1-4).
From PAO, MU 2099 - 1788. Ke-cha-mak-qua / Kitschy-maqua / Kitchymugqua / Big Bear [fl. 1770; killed by Nabbawe c.1803], Ojibwa chief of the Bear Creek [Ah-yah-yon-ka-ge- mog / Jonquakmik / Sydenham River] community, father of Ojibwa Chief Nabbawe [who married a daughter of Walpole Island Odawa Chief Onagan]; he lived on the lower Askunessippi [Thames River] before 1770; he moved to Bear Creek [which was named after him] and founded the town of Kitegan [Garden] sometime around 1770; old Kitschy-maqua [Big Bear] was murdered by his son, Walpole Island / St. Clair River Ojibwa Chief Great Lesser Bear / Nabbawe; Kecha-mak-qua, Ojibwa chief, signed [with a Beaver totem] a provisional surrender for London Township, September 29, 1795; Kecha-mak- qua, Ojibwa chief, signed [with a Beaver totem] a provisional surrender for Chennail Ecarte, September 29, 1795; Kitchemughqua, Ojibwa chief, signed: Surrender #6 [with a Beaver totem], London Township, Surrender #7, Sombra Township, and accompanying maps, September 7, 1796; Big Bear told Selby on October 12, 1797, that he and his community of 160 wished to winter at Chennail Ecarte; sometime around July 1798 there were 55 in Big Bear's community and they were related to Onagan's Odawa community by inter-marriage; on June 27, 1799 there were 66 people in Big Bear's community and they were living at the Chennail Ecarte (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 021-IT 024, IT 026-IT 028; Canada NMC 2835, 4113; Canada 1891 vol. I: 17, 19; Denke 1991: 16; Ferris: 75-76, 89; Leighton: app. B5; MPHSC vol. XX: 618, 642, vol. XXV: 105, 157). Big = kicci, bear = makkwa (Piggott and Grafstein).
Kee-o-suck-o-wah [fl. 1827], Pottawatomie chief; he signed the US Treaty for lands in eastern Michigan, September 19, 1827 (US 1837; Leighton: app. B3). Kegedoons / Keketoonce [fl. 1829; disappeared and found dead near Goderich in the fall of 1831], Ojibwa chief of the Naguhweseebe [Ausable River / Port Franks] community, father of Thomas Bigcanoe; he camped near Manestung [Goderich] in 1829; he met Kahkewaquonaby [Peter Jones] on July 27, 1829 while canoeing south on Lake Huron; Jones described him as an old chief and an associate of Chief Wawanosh; Keketoonce told Jones that he would accept Christianity if Chief Wawanosh did and vice versa; he also told Jones that he wished to settle at the Saugeen River and to receive presents at the mouth of the Red River [Goderich] in 1829; Kegedoons travelled to the Credit River in December 1829 and was converted to Christianity by the spring of 1831 (Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 239-240, 268; Smith 1987: 110-111). 'Brothers and Sisters, the Great Spirit has planted a tree at this place whose top reaches the skies - you have found this tree and are climbing up towards the abode of the Great Spirit' —Credit River, December 1829. Kekanasawa / Kekanassiwe [fl. 1843-1849], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; he signed: Surrender #53½, Moore Township, August 18, 1843, and Surrender #59, Moore Township, August 18, 1849 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 128, 147). Kekinathuka / Kakinathucca / Keyinatitchtha / Keissinautchta / Bonner [fl. 1764 onwards; died at Matthew Elliot's farm, Amherstberg c.1806], Shawnee/Chaouanon chief, married to Metsigemewa [born c. 1748]: "She appeared to be forty years of age, and rather corpulent. Her looks were extremely savage, and she eyed me with a look of contempt, without speaking;" father of a daughter, Altowesa [born c. 1770]; he attended a conference at a camp at Tuskerawas, October 17, 1764; attended a conference at Muskingum, November 12, 1764; in March 1788 Shawnee captive Thomas Ridout was brought to Kakinathucca's winter hunting village, about 600 miles south of Detroit; Ridout wrote that Kakinathucca "was of the most mild and intelligent countenance. I never once saw him out of humour, and as soon as he arose, which was early, he began to sing;" Ridout travelled to Fort Miami with Kakinathucca where he was released at a council under the authority of Shawnee Chief Captain John in April 1788; Kekinathucka attended the General Council at the Glaize [Defiance, Ohio], September 30, 1792, he met with McKee on October 9; Kikinathucka arrived at Detroit with confirmation that the US Army was near Fort Jefferson; the Borrer (Bonner) attended a meeting with The Blackbeard, the Buffaloe and Captain Johnny at Amherstburg on June 30, 1797; Keckanathucko, Shawnee chief, lived with Captain McKee at Swan Creek, south of Lake Erie, in 1799, visiting Montréal with Elliot in that year; Kakinathucca and three other Shawnee chiefs visited Ridout at York in 1799 (Cruikshank vol. I: 229; Horsman: 126, 145-146, 148; Ridout: 344-371; MPHSC vol. XII: 105, vol. XX: 519, 651, 656, vol. XXIV: 497; PSWJ vol. XI: 439, 461). Kenewahba / Kinne-Obe [fl. 1850-1867], Sarnia Ojibwa Nation, son of Maish-ke- aw-she; he lived at Saginaw, Michigan with Mash-ke-ashe in 1867 (Plain: 13). Kenooshnahgum [fl. 1875], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; he signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 7). Kenow / Kegow [fl. 1788-1829], Ojibwa chief; signed [with a Bear totem] the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788; Kegow, Ojibwa chief of Walpole Island, agreed to accept Pottawatomie into the Walpole Island Ojibwa community in 1829 (PAO MU 2099 OS 1-4; Taylor app. A: Penance decl.).
From PAO, MU 2099 - 1788. Ketchicanaway [fl. 1778-1788], Ojibwa chief; Kee-jee-kainee, Saignaw Ojibwa village chief, attended a conference at Detroit, June 14, 1778; Ketchicanaway, Ojibwa chief, signed [with a Catfish or Sturgeon totem] the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO MU 2099 OS 1-4; MPHSC vol. IX: 442). From PAO, MU 2099 - 1788. Captain Ketchum [fl. 1812-1814], Delaware war chief; served with the US army in southwestern Ontario (Kjellberg: 71). Ke-wa-gash [fl. 1848], Odawa Nation, Walpole Island community; in 1848 he received presents from the Indian Department for wounds suffered in the War of 1812 (Richardson: 101). Ke-wa-gash = Return Sail (Richardson: 101). Keywaycooshcum [fl. 1813-1818], Odawa chief, lived on Little Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan; he fought at the Battle of Moraviantown [Fairfield], October 5, 1813; he settled near Traverse, Michigan after the war; Kewtasskum, Ojibwa chief of Chennail Ecarte, attended a council at Amherstburg to negotiate the terms of Surrender #21, October 16, 1818; Kewish was listed in the Anderdon Reserve [Anderdon Township] census, August 31, 1840 (PAC RG10 ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1847: no. 19; Clifton, Cornell, and McClurken: 21; Denke 1991: 7; MPHSC vol. X: 472, vol. XIII: 90, vol. XVI: 643, vol. XX: 195, vol. XXXX: 192-195). Ì Key-way-te-nan [fl. 1766-1790], Pottawatomie chief; Ke-wi-ta-na-wee, Fish totem, signed the deed for Kitche minishen [Grosse Île] to the Macomb brothers, July 6, 1776; Kec-ou-te-nan attended a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Key-way- te-nan, principal Pottawatomie chief, attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed Surrender #2 [with a Fish totem], south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; Clifton states that this name doesn't appear to be a regular clan eponym, and that all that can be said about Key-way- te-nan is that he appears to have been associated with Alexander McKee (PAC RG 10 vol. 1840 IT 002, RG10 ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1891 vol. I: 1; Clifton 1975: 58-59; Lajeunesse: 173; Leighton: app. B4; MPHSC vol. IX: 443, vol. X: 453-455, vol. XXXV: 582; PSWJ vol. XI: 228). 'Father! In calling to mind the Bones of our Ancestors, you draw tears from me. Have pity of them, and I'll engage they will raise Mountains over their graves' —Detroit, March 11, 1781 [Major De Peyster had said previously "Whilst some of you look out for your Enemies, let others fresh cover the Graves of your Ancestors, and raise the earth so high over them no plough can level them"].Kiashke / Kiosk [fl. 1796-1818], Ojibwa, Bear Creek [Sydenham River] community, possibly the father of Kiyoshk; Kiashke signed [with a Beaver totem] Surrender #6, London Township, Surrender #7, Sombra Township, and accompanying maps, September 7, 1796; Keask, Ojibwa chief, Beaver totem, sold land on the northwest side of Lake St. Clair to May, McNiff and Harson, February 4, 1797; Kiosk, Ojibwa chief, signed the US Treaty of Detroit ceding the west half of Lake St. Clair, etc., November 17, 1807; Kayash, Ojibwa chief of Chennail Ecarte, attended a council at Amherstburg to negotiate the terms of Surrender #21, October 16, 1818 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 021-IT 024, IT 026-IT 028; Canada 1891 vol. I: 17, 19; US 1837: 136; Leighton: app. B1, B1a; MPHSC vol. VIII: 498-499; vol. XVI: 643). Gyaushk / Kaishke = gull (Canada 1913: 98, 185; Rita Sands, Jake Noganosh, Margaret Jackson, pers. com.).
Kicheniny [fl. 1788], Ojibwa chief; he signed [with a Fork totem] the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO MU 2099 OS 1-4).
From PAO, MU 2099 - 1788. John Kilbuck Senior [fl. 1764-1768], Unami/ Delaware; son of Delaware Chief Netawatwees, father of Delaware Chief Gelelemend [John Henry Killbuck Junior], he lived at Newcomerstown; he attended a conference at the head of the Scioto River, November 11, 1764; Johnson described him as a person who "appears to act very open"; he visited Johnson Hall, May 27, 1765; he signed a peace treaty with the English around 1765; he attended a major conference at Johnson Hall, August 27, 1768; he tried to prevent the conversion of the Delaware chiefs to Moravian Christianity (Gray: 51, 53; PSWJ vol. IV: 786, vol. XI: 436, 459, 650, 768-770, vol. XII: 628). Kinenchoue / Kinench8e [fl. 1747], Huron/ Wyandot or Tionnontaté Nation; lived in the small village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census (Lajeunesse: 35-37). William King [fl. 1883], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey [Thames River] community; he signed Surrender #210, September 28, 1883 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 146) Kingewano [fl. 1786], Odawa chief, Detroit area, signed [with a Wolf 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). Kinisshikapoo [fl. 1765], Grand River Ojibwa war chief: possibly captured Grand River traders and killed trader Wendall in May 1763 with Chief Sekahos - among those captured was John Seeger who was told about the underground war belts held by Wabbicommicot; he was an ally of Pontiac in the War of 1763-64; Kinishikapoo was an ally of Chief Wabbicommicot in preventing an outbreak of war due to the death of two soldiers at Detroit in 1765; he spoke at Johnson Hall, June 2, 1765 (Schmalz: 79; MPHSC vol. XXIV: 647, 652; PSWJ vol. XI: 772). 'I heard that there was bad news about Detroit & therefore I went to enquire about it & to endeavor to preserve peace. I must Confess I found many Indians who were Drunk in that Quarter, & Pondiac is not quite Sober & I acknowledge I have been a little drunk myself which I attribute to this French Medal (takng it off), but notwithstanding. I had always a great Esteem for it I have resolved to give it up since it has made me drunk'—June 2, 1765. Kinonchamek [fl. 1763], northern Ojibwa warrior / war chief and head chief, son of Ojibwa Chief Minavavana, grandfather of Augustin Hamelin Jr. [who became head chief on May 3, 1835]; arrived at Detroit on Saturday, June 18, 1763, a council at his camp was held the next day where he criticised Pontiac for violating the rules of war at the Siege of Detroit; Kononchamek left Detroit for Michilimakinak on June 22, 1763; Pontiac told Selby that he expected Kee-no-cha-mick to return within ten days on June 27, 1763; Kee-no-sha- meek, Odawa chief, signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795 (US 1837: 54; Jennings: 447; Lajeunesse: 96; Peckham: 185-187, 189-190; MPHSC vol. VIII: 316-321, vol. XII: 621, vol. XX: 417). 'We have learned at home, my brothers, that you are waging war very differently from us. Like you, we have undertaken to chase the English out of our territory and we have succeeded. And we did it without glutting ourselves with their blood after we had taken them, as you have done, we surprised them while playing a game of lacrosse at a time when they were unsuspecting'—Detroit, June 19, 1763. Elisha Kinquopot [fl. 1835], Unami/Delaware, Moravian; signed Surrender #47, part of Moraviantown [Fairfield], October 25, 1836 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 115). Kiocuskcum [fl. 1764], Odawa chief, L'Arbre Croche community; he attended an Indian congress at Niagara, July 15, 1764 (PSWJ vol. XI: 273). Kioscance [fl. c.1720], Ojibwa chief, father of Ojibwa Chiefs Shingnebeck and Annamakance (Goodspeed: 23). Kiosquace, [born at Amherstburg in 1807; fl. 1852], Ojibwa hunter; lived in the Ojibwa community at Muncey in 1852 (PAC Canada 1851-1852). Kirsh-ko-pe-rund / Captain Buffaloe [fl. 1795-1815], Delaware chief, Sandusky community; Kirsh-ko-pe-rund signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795; Buffaloe [fl. 1808-1815], Shawnee/Shaouanon principal chief; he attended a meeting at Amherstburg with Captain Johnny, Chief Blackbeard and Captain Claus, March 25, 1808; The Buffalo was planting on the lower Thames River with Muncies, Moravians and Ojibwas in June 1815 (US 1837: 54; MPHSC vol. XX: 416, vol. XVI: 134, vol. XXV: 242-243). Kitchekemit [killed at the Battle of Moraviantown {Fairfield}, October 5, 1813], Pottawatomie warrior (Sugden: 163). Kitchiamick [fl. 1788-1818], Ojibwa chief; he signed [with a Beaver totem] the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788; Kitchearaquet, Ojibwa chief of Chennail Ecarte, attended a council at Amherstburg to negotiate the terms of Surrender #21, October 16, 1818 (PAO MU 2099 OS 1-4; MPHSC vol. XVI: 643).
From PAO, MU 2099 - 1788. Ì Ki-wich-e-ouan [fl. 1774-1807], Odawa chief, Eagle clan; Kitchiwonon, one of the principal chiefs of the Odawa at Detroit, signed [with a Deer or Horse totem] an indenture granting an island in the Detroit River [half a league from Hog Island] to Alexis Masonville in 1774. Underneath his name, and associated with the same totem are the names "Gritagamia" and "Wokiniana" - collectively these three are referred to as "father and sons" on the document; Ki-wi-chi-win / Kewitchiwini, Odawa chief, attended a conference at Detroit, April 26, 1781; Kiwitchewene, Odawa chief, Eagle totem, signed the Jacob Schieffelin deed, south side of the Detroit River, opposite Ilse aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], October 13, 1783; Ki-wish- e-ouan / Ki-wich-e-ouan, principal Odawa chief, attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790 where he signed Surrender #2 [with a Bird totem], south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor [Lajeunesse spells his name Ki wish e ouan]; Kievehiwen / Kievejiwen, Odawa chief, signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800; Kawachewon, Odawa chief, attended a council at Swan Creek in early 1807; Kawachewon / The Eddy, "the oldest chief of the Odawa Nation," visited Hull at Detroit after the Odawa council at Malden and delivered a speech to Hull from the Odawa Nation on August 24, 1807, he gave Hull assurances of friendship and fidelity to the United States; Ka-wach-e-wan, Odawa chief, signed the US Treaty of Detroit ceding the west half of Lake St. Clair, etc., November 17, 1807 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002; PAC RG10 ser. II vol. 13, vol. 16 C1224: 117-120; Canada 1891 vol. I: 1, 31; US 1837: 136; Clifton, Cornell, and McClurken: 21; Denke 1991: 7; Lajeunesse: 154, 172, 208; Leighton: app. B1, B4; MPHSC vol. X: 472, vol. XIII: 90, vol. XVI: 643, vol. XX: 195, vol. XXXX: 192-195). 'That when we were at War with the Americans, the British promised to help us - That they built a Fort on the Miami, and the Americans fought and beat us near that Fort - That when we retreated, the Gates of the Fort were shut against our wounded, and We were left to take care of ourselves' —Detroit, August 24, 1807.
Kiyoshk / Kyosh [fl. 1843-1857], Ojibwa chief; he signed Surrender 53½, Moore Township, August 18, 1843; Kayoshk, Ojibwa chief, signed Surrender #59, Moore Township, August 18, 1849; Kah- yaushk, Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island, signed Surrenders #85 and #86, Peach Island, Detroit River, and Keshebahnelegoo Menesha Island, St. Clair River, July 21, 1857; possibly the son of Kiashke, and the father of Jacob, Charles and Joseph Kiyoshk (Canada 1891 vol. I: 128, 147, 220-221; Leighton: app. B1, B1a). Charles Kiyoshk [fl. 1875-1880], Ojibwa councillor / interpreter, Walpole Island community; descended from Chief Kiyoshk(?); he signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875; Charles Kiyoshk signed Surrender #296, March 18, 1880 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 7, vol. III: 30). Jacob Kiyoshk [fl. 1875], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island; descended from Chief Kiyoshk(?); he signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 7). Joseph Kiyoshk / J.S. Kiyoshk [fl. 1875-1883], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; descended from Chief Kiyoshk(?); he signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875; J.S. Kiyoshk signed Surrender #209, December 26, 1883 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 7, 145). Philip Kiyoshk [fl. 1875], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island; descended from Kiyoshk(?); he signed Surrender #144, June 17, 1875 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 7). Ko-jai-wainee [fl. 1825], Pottawatomie chief; he signed the US Treaty for lands in eastern Michigan, September 19, 1827 (US 1837; Leighton: app. B3). Koquethagechton / White Eyes / Captain Grey Eyes [fl. 1763 onwards; he was murdered November 10, 1778], Delaware chief, Turtle clan; head statesman of the Delaware Nation along with Chief Neytawatwees; Captain Grey Eyes was the successor to Chief Netawatwees in 1763; Gorsham Hicks, a prisoner of the Delawares, built a house for White Eyes, Delaware chief, at Salt Licks in the winter of 1763-64; White Eyes attended a congress at Fort Pitt, May 9, 1765; he threatened to resign his position unless the Moravian Delawares were accepted by the Delaware Nation; Koquethagechton kept the Delaware neutral in Lord Dunsmore's War and signed an alliance with the US on September 7, 1778; he was the leader of the peace party, advocating a separate state in the United States for the Delaware Nation; he did not become a Christian; the US Treaty of Fort McIntosh called for the re-admission of Captain White Eyes into the treaty claims of the Delaware Nation on January 21, 1785; John Greyeyes [fl. 1843], a converted Christian Wyandot, gave a farewell sermon in the Wyandot language at Upper Sandusky in July 1843, on the occasion of the departure of the Wyandot from Ohio (US 1837: 6; Gray: 52ff, 60-61, 85, 303; Kjellberg: 25-26; OAHS vol. XIV: 442; PSWJ vol. XI: 724, vol. XII: 1048, vol. XIX: 253-254, 689, vol. XXV: 689). Kuh-yau-gewosh [fl. 1848], Ojibwa chief, Walpole Island community; in 1848 he received presents from the Indian Department for wounds suffered in the War of 1812 (Richardson: 100). Kuh-yau-gewosh = Sailor (Richardson: 100). Kyen-da-nent / Sally [fl. 1775-1800], Seneca Nation; sister of Seneca Chief Captain Bull, a British ally; she married Ebenezer Allen in what is now New York State around 1775 [Allen visited her daily and finally took her away from her husband]; "a kind gentle cunning creature," according to Mary Jemison; she lived at Mount Morris with Allen; they had 2 daughters, Polly and Chloë, who were sent to school in Trenton, New Jersey; Allen eventually acquired two other wives by 1794 and then moved to Delaware, Upper Canada, leaving Sally behind [he threatened to kill her if she followed him to Canada], he brought Polly and Chloë with him however [they married Mathias Crow and Joseph Cooper of Delaware]; she returned to the Seneca Nation; later on, one of her daughters attempted to claim a tract of land near Mount Morris, but the claim was not successful; she was also the basis of Allen's claim to lands near Delaware (Goodspeed: 477; Seaver: 64-76; Stott: 26-27; DCB vol. V: 15).
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