Pewanakum Ogichidaa

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About Pewanakum Ogichidaa

Chief Pewanakum was a Signatory Signer for all Chippewas at the 1789 Treaty at Fort Harmar in Ohio.

Full blood Wild Rice Native of Minnesota Dakota Mdewakonton Nation; cousin to Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians founder Chief Little Shell I, Standing Firm, cousin to Red Lake Nation founding Chief Red Lake Nation Grand Chief Maydwaygwanoonind I Mādwāgwănōnĭnd I "Who is Heard Spoken To" Tuttle, Isaac H. Tuttle

Was steward of Ojibwe Trading Settlement west of the Franklin Park Settlement (Toledo Ohio/Temperance Ohio) from 1790-his death in 1809. He fought in the Battle of Fallen Timbers with his cousin Chief Mishikinakwa "Little Turtle" in the 1790's. Operated the Pembina/Ojibwe trading village located 3 miles northeast of the Franklin Park Settlement, 3-miles south of Indian creek and 3 miles west of Mishkiman camp at the mouth of Halfway Creek.

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