Chief Assaganashkam

Chief Assaganashkam (sometimes transcribed as Assagananashkam or Assagauashkam) is not listed in the 1907 Wooster Roll, presumably because he was deceased in 1907 but he is mentioned by a number of individuals as a "grandfather" (eg #1503, Amable Wemigwans_born c. 1837 and John Nashkewa # 687; or "maternal grandfather" eg. #1407, Elizabeth Pitawanakwat_born c1830 and Mrs. Margaret Tomah # 1097; or as a "great grandfather" eg. Henry Johnson # 1022 and Joseph James # 683) or as an "ancestor" (eg. 1549, John Tobie_born c. 1819). A transcription of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago names 77 representatives of the Three Fires Confederacy who were signatories to that treaty. On that transcript #62 was a man named "Ah-sag-a-mish-cum" which phonetically sounds much like "Assaganashkam". Since Elizabeth Pitawanakwat was about age 3 in 1833 and names Assaganashkam as her grandfather there is increased likelihood that the person recorded in 1833 as "Ah-sag-amish-cum" is, indeed, "Assaganashkam".