Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá

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About Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá

Utinawasis, Machequayaince, and Techomegood were the matriarchs of The Dakota Nation, The O'Jibway Nation, and The Cree Iron Confederacy as the family of Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá and Chief A-ke-gui-ov Equay-say-way, Mamaangĕzide. His stepbrother Pierre Decoteau, Red Bear, Chief Noka Nokay Kadwabida Broken Tooth, and Chief Alexis Bobtail Piche skinned the white men who abused them. A man Charles Chartier once took their money and sold them. Briefly, this incited Chief Kaŋgidaŋ Mdokečiŋhaŋ, Little Crow I to start a war to rescue them. Modern history has ignored the story of the family of the three Starwoman sisters manipulated by greedy European businessmen to obtain access to their trading routes including The NW Trading Company, XY Trading Company, and Hudson Bay Trading Company.

Principle descendants are found at Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, Ho-Chunk Nation, Fon du Lac Nation, The Great Pembina Nation, Little Shell Nation of Montana, and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Nation. He is a lineal descendant of the Powhatan of Virginia.

SIGNER OF THE Prairie du Chien Treaty of 1825 [https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/api/singleitem/image/t...]

SIGNER OF THE Pike Treaty of 1805

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He is the half brother of Mamongazide of Lake of the Woods.

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Indigenous descendants of North America view lineage as the foundation of cultural identity.

The family is the central unity of the community, and the wise grandfathers and grandmothers are honored with respect.

Grand Chiefs negotiated Treaties with The United States of America asserting national sovereignty status, established national land boundaries, and established the Supreme Laws of the Land.

A ROYAL NATIVE FAMILY: TWO BROTHERS "Mamaangĕzide and Wáȟpe Šá"

One hundred years before the attack on Ojibwe maple sugar gatherers by Dakota raiders at Sandy Lake, one family’s alliance created a bridge of friendship between eastern Dakota villages and the western Lake Superior Ojibwe.

During this time, intermarriage between members of the Ojibwe and Dakota bands was a common practice that reaffirmed the peaceful commitment between the villages. Around the year 1720, Fox Woman Wabasha (Eshipequag) the daughter of Chief Jos Ojiibway, of the Reindeer Dynasty and Sandy Lake Ojibwe Band Chief Kadawibida No-Ka Gaa-dawaabide Broken Tooth Nooke “Bear” (Ka-ta-wah-be-dah Breshieu) met and married. The marriage unified the paramount leadership families of the Oceti Sakowin of the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations of The Great Lakes. From this union two sons were born, the eldest named Wáȟpe Šá and the younger Mamaangĕzide.

Sadly for the family, the marriage of Wáȟpe Šá’s parents did not last long, as tensions along the indigenous borderlands flared and the alliance between their tribes fell apart, forcing mixed Dakota-Ojibwe households to separate. During these forced separations, “instances were told where the parting between husband and wife was most grieving to behold.” Wáȟpe Šá retained his Oceti Sakowin Dakota heritage and identity and stayed with his father’s village.

Knowing her life would otherwise be in danger, Wáȟpe Šá’s mother left to return to her kin living near Lake Superior at Lake of the Woods.

Together they had a son named Mamaangĕzide, and as he grew he earned a reputation as a leader
of the western Lake Superior Ojibwe. Mamaangĕzide was renowned for his hunting skills, and often extended his hunting expeditions deep into Dakota territory. This was especially dangerous because following the breakup of the Dakota-Ojibwe alliance, renewed tensions in the region saw a drastic increase in violence between the historic rival tribes. The tensions between the Dakota and Ojibwe created a corridor where hunters from both bands avoided going because of the great risk of attack.

In this narrow geographic space, the animal population rebounded and created a rich hunting region. Enticed by the opportunity to find plentiful game, Mamaangĕzide led a small group of “his near relatives, amounting usually to 20 persons, exclusive of children,” and embarked to the hunting grounds “near the borders of the Dakota country, in the midland district lying between the Mississippi and Lake Superior.”

This region was the geographical center of the Indigenous borderlands though Mamaangĕzide had hunted far from his main village before, this time the risk did not pay off. While the small hunting party made preparations for their hunt, Dakota warriors discovered and fired on the party. One of the Ojibwe was wounded in the second volley. The situation appeared desperate to Mamaangĕzide, and he called out in Dakota asking if his halfbrother Wáȟpe Šá was with the Dakota party. The Dakota paused their attack. After a long moment, Wáȟpe Šá stepped out from the tree line to meet with his Ojibwe half-brother, Mamaangĕzide, stopping the fighting between the two parties. The half-brothers shared the same Ojibwe mother, Fox Woman Wabasha (Eshipequag) yet their individual identities stemmed from the community in which they were raised.

Oceti Sakowin Dakota and Anishinabewaki Ojibwe village and kinship structures differed greatly from each other. Each man likely understood the concept of kin and obligation to kin differently, yet their shared maternal connection was strong enough to stop this particular skirmish. An individual’s connection to a large community was one of the keys to survival in the region, but each community was a collection of individual people who had agreed to band together.

The Ojibwe and Dakota differed in how these practices functioned, yet an individual’s need for community was the same for both tribes. While modern identity is made up of a web of affiliations, the nation-state is often the primary lens through which people understand themselves and others. In the Indigenous borderlands, nation-state identity was nonexistent, but that did not mean that there were no firm boundaries of identity that bonded some peoples together while separating others. Family kinship and village ties created these strong bonds and were centers of identity, as well as obligation. On certain occasions, like the meeting of Mamaangĕzide and Wáȟpe Šá, family ties could bridge the gap between cultures.

Mamaangĕzide and Wáȟpe Šá found peace.

Mamaangĕzide daughter Claire Equaywid Ahdik Songab would marry his brother Wáȟpe Šá unifying the nations eternally through the Equaywid-Wáȟpe Šá bloodline, the principal leader of the Oceti Sakowin and Anisishinabe. Claire Equaywid Ahdik Songab and Wáȟpe Šá would become parents of Chief of the Chippewas Pierre Misco Mahqua DeCoteau, Misko-Makwa Red Bear I; Ahdikons; Aceguemanche; Chief Noka Nokay Kadwabida Broken Tooth; Utinawasis "Star Woman" Margaret Son-gabo-ki-che-ta Grant; Angelique Woman LaBatte; Mary Etoukasah-wee Lapoint; Mdewakanton Dakota Chief Wahpehda Red Leaf Wáȟpe šá Wazhazha, II; Mah Je Gwoz Since Ah-dik Songab "Star Woman" and Marie Techomehgood Bottineau, Star Woman.

The brother of Mamaangĕzide and Wáȟpe Šá was called Chief Kaŋgidaŋ “Little Raven” Little Crow I. Chief Kaŋgidaŋ “Little Raven” Little Crow I is the father of Joseph Petit Courbeau III (Aisaince I) Little Shell I, who was the half-brother of Gay Tay Menomin Old Wild Rice (Red Wing I).

In a turn of intermarrying of leadership, Mamaangĕzide's father Chief Kadawibida No-Ka Gaa-dawaabide Broken Tooth Nooke “Bear” (Ka-ta-wah-be-dah Breshieu) was the half-brother of Chief of the Chippewas Pierre Misco Mahqua DeCoteau, Misko-Makwa Red Bear I. Chief of the Chippewas Pierre Misco Mahqua DeCoteau, Misko-Makwa Red Bear I mother was Claire Equaywid Ahdik Songab, the daughter of Mamaangĕzide. Claire Equaywid Ahdik Songab would have relations with Sandy Lake Ojibwe Chief Biauswah II Bayaaswaa "The Dry One" Bajasswa Thomme Qui Faitsecher, the grandfather of Mamaangĕzide. Red Bear I sister, Mah Je Gwoz Since Ah-dik Songab "Star Woman" was the daughter of Wáȟpe Šá and Equaywid. The family intermarrying practices unified a nation, preserved a bloodline, and established a royal native lineage.

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LEADERSHIP OF THE PEMBINA CHIPPEWA NATION

The Wazhazha Mdewakanton of the O'Jibway Nation is ceremonial. The O'Jibway Nation traces back 2000 years as a collection of Nations who unified and worked collectively to establish trade, and family unity, among the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabemowin, and Algonquin descendants of the Great Lakes. Ojibwa, also spelled Ojibwe or Ojibway, also called Chippewa, self-name Anishinaabe, Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe who lived in what are now Ontario and Manitoba, Can., and Minnesota and North Dakota, U.S., from Lake Huron westward onto the Plains. These matrilineal-patrilineal lines merge with one family. 

26. Private *Red Bear Band Leadership

25. Ogimaa Ma'Lingaan *Red Bear Band Leadership

24. Elmer Patrice Brunelle *Red Bear Band Leadership

23. Patrice "Petite" Francis Brunelle *Red Bear Band Leadership

22. A branch deviates to Little Shell VII Louis Delorme of Little Shell Pembina Chippewa, to Private of Little Shell Pembina Chippewa Tribe.

22. Chief Ayabewaywetung, Ase Ance, Little Shell III (1872-1903) --->Turtle Mountain Branch Separation and leadership went to Chief Joseph Kaishpa "The Elevated One" Gourneau

21. John Baptiste Brunelle --->Pembina Chippewa Tribe Separation and leadership went to Patrice "Petite" Francis Brunelle *Red Bear Band Leadership

20. Red Bear II *Red Bear Band Leadership

19. Chief Weesh-e-damo, Aisaince III, Little Shell II (1813-1872)

18. Joseph Montrielle, Chief of Pembina Chippewa *Red Bear Band Leadership

17. Chief Makadeshib Black Duck (1811-1813)

17. Joseph Lenau, Tabasnawa Little Shell II (1790-1804)

16. Pierre Decoteau, Red Bear *Red Bear Band Leadership

16. Chief Little Shell I, Standing Firm

15. Chief Gay Tay Menomin Old Wild Rice

14. Chief Kaŋgidaŋ Mdokečiŋhaŋ, Little Crow I

13. Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá

12. Waubojeeg

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10. Chief Ka-che-ne-zuh-yauk Kahdewahbeday Broken Tooth

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8. Matchiwaijan Bayaaswaa

7. Jos O'Jiibway

6. Wajawadajkoa

5. Wajki Weshki

4. Schawanagijik

3. Mitiguakosh

2. Miskwandibagan

1. Chief Gijigossekot Great Thunderbird

O'Jibway Nation Ogimaakwe: Machequayaince daughter of Wazhazha Mdewakanton Dakota Grand Chief Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá; sister of Pierre Decoteau, Red Bear, son of Bajasswa

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Chief Delonaise Atetaŋkawamduška Wáȟpe Šá's Timeline

1718
1718
Black Man’s Band
1765
1765
1770
1770
Minnesota, United States
1773
1773
Cass Lake
1775
1775
Red Lake, Walhalla, Pembina Dakota Territory, Red Lake Dakotas
1780
1780
Walhalla, Pembina County, ND, United States
1806
1806
Age 88
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