Okunzhewug Stone

!Source #1: Schoolcraft's Expedition to Lake Itasca: The Discovery of the source of the Mississippi. Michigan State University Press, 1958. Pg 121, 122. "In the summer of 1827, Okunzhewug, an old woman, the wife of Kishkemun, the principal chief of Torch Lake (Lac du Flambeau), a man superannuated and blind, attended the treaty of Butte des Morts, bearing her husband's medal. She was treated with the respect due to the character she represented, and ample presents were direected to be given to her; among other things a handsome hat. The latter article had been requested of her by a young Menomonie, and refused. It is thought a general feeling of jealousy was excited by her good reception. A number of the Menomonies went on her return route as far as the Clover Portage, where she was last seen. Having never returned to her village, the Chippewas attributed her death to the Menomonies. Her husband died soon after; but she had numerous and influential relatives to avenge her real of supposed murder. This is the account delivered by the Chippewas, and it is corroborated by reports from the traders of that section of the country. Her singular disappearance and secret death at the Clover Portage, is undisputed; and whether caused or not by any agency of the Menomonies, the belief of such agency, and that of the most direct kind, is fixed in the minds of the Chippewas, and has furnished the basis of their subsequent acts in relation to the Menominie hunting-parties who have visited the lower part of Chippewa River. Two women belonging to one of these parties were killed be a Chippewa war-party traversing that part of the country the ensuing year. The act was disclaimed by them as not being intentional, and it was declared they supposed the women to be Sioux. On a close inquiry, however, I found the persons who committed this act were relatives of Okunzewug, which renders it probable that the murder was intentionally perpetrated..." !Source #2: (for location) Tr eaty with the Chippewa, etc., 1827. ...Concluded at the Butte des Morts, on Fox river, in the Territory of Michigan,...

"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9HRB-HLX : accessed 16 February 2018), entry for Okunzhewug; file (2:2:2:MM95-K2Z), submitted 06 October 2003 by MikeBeier [identity withheld for privacy].