Chief Oshkosh, the Glossary
Chief Oshkosh (also spelled Os-kosh or Oskosh) (c. 1795–August 31, 1858) was a chief of the Menominee Native Americans, recognized as the leader of the Menominee people by the United States government from August 7, 1827, until his death.[1]
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61 relations: Augustin Grignon, Battle of Fort Stephenson, Battle of Mackinac Island (1814), Black Hawk War, British Empire, Brothertown Indians, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Butte des Morts, Wisconsin, Crow Wing River, Eleazer Williams, Fox River (Green Bay tributary), Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Henry Dodge, Indian peace medal, James Duane Doty, Keshena, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, Lake Poygan, Lake Winnebago, Lewis Cass, List of governors of Michigan, Métis, Menominee, Menominee Indian Reservation, Michigan, Michigan Territory, Millard Fillmore, Minnesota, Mohicans, Morgan Lewis Martin, Munsee, Native Americans in the United States, Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Ojibwe, Ojibwe language, Oneida people, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Pawnee people, Point Basse, Samuel Marsden Brookes, Scare quotes, Siege of Fort Mackinac, Siege of Fort Meigs, Sioux, Slavery among Native Americans in the United States, Stockbridge–Munsee Community, Thomas L. McKenney, Treaty of Lake Poygan, Treaty of the Cedars, ... Expand index (11 more) »
- Menominee people
- Native American people from Wisconsin
- Native Americans in the War of 1812
- Native Americans of the Black Hawk War
Augustin Grignon
Augustin Grignon (June 27, 1780 – October 2, 1860) was a fur trader and general entrepreneur in the Fox River Valley in territorial Wisconsin, surviving into its early years of statehood.
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Battle of Fort Stephenson
The Battle of Fort Stephenson in August 1813 was an American victory during the War of 1812.
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Battle of Mackinac Island (1814)
The Battle of Mackinac Island (pronounced Mackinaw) was a British victory in the War of 1812.
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Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Brothertown Indians
The Brothertown Indians (also Brotherton), located in Wisconsin, are a Native American tribe formed in the late 18th century from communities descended from Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, Tunxis, Niantic, and Mohegan (Algonquian-speaking) tribes of southern New England and eastern Long Island, New York.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.
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Butte des Morts, Wisconsin
Butte des Morts is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Winneconne, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Crow Wing River
The Crow Wing River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Eleazer Williams
Eleazer Williams (May 1788 – August 28, 1858) was a Canadian-American clergyman and missionary of Mohawk descent. Chief Oshkosh and Eleazer Williams are 1858 deaths.
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Fox River (Green Bay tributary)
The Fox River is a river in eastern Wisconsin in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Grand Rapids, Wisconsin
The Town of Grand Rapids is located in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Henry Dodge
Moses Henry Dodge (October 12, 1782 – June 19, 1867) was an American politician and military officer who was Democratic member to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, Territorial Governor of Wisconsin and a veteran of the Black Hawk War.
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Indian peace medal
Indian peace medals refer to ovular or circular medals awarded to tribal leaders throughout colonial America and early United States history, primarily made of silver or brass and ranging in diameter from about one to six inches.
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James Duane Doty
James Duane Doty (November 5, 1799 – June 13, 1865) was a land speculator and politician in the United States who played an important role in the development of Wisconsin and Utah Territory.
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Keshena, Wisconsin
Keshena (Kesīqnæh) is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Lake Poygan
Lake Poygan, located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin near the village of Winneconne, is an expansive widening of the Wolf River totaling over 14,000 acres (57 km2).
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Lake Winnebago
Lake Winnebago (Wenepekōw Nepēhsæh, Wiinibiigoo-zaaga'igan, kanyataláheleˀ) is a shallow freshwater lake in the north central United States, located in east central Wisconsin.
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Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782June 17, 1866) was an United States Army officer and politician.
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List of governors of Michigan
The governor of Michigan, is the head of government of the U.S. state of Michigan as well as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Métis
The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.
Menominee
The Menominee (omǣqnomenēwak meaning "Menominee People", also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans officially known as the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
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Menominee Indian Reservation
The Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in northeastern Wisconsin held in trust by the United States for the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
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Michigan Territory
The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan.
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Mohicans
The Mohicans are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language.
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Morgan Lewis Martin
Morgan Lewis Martin (March 31, 1805December 10, 1887) was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin Territory during the 29th United States Congress (1845–1847).
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Munsee
The Munsee (Monsiyok) are a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Nekoosa, Wisconsin
Nekoosa is a city in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.
Ojibwe language
Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Otchipwe,R.
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Oneida people
The Oneida people (autonym: Onʌyoteˀa·ká·, Onyota'a:ka, the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone, Thwahrù·nęʼ in Tuscarora) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band.
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh is a city in and the county seat of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, located on the western shore of Lake Winnebago.
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Pawnee people
The Pawnee are a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma.
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Point Basse
Point Basse refers to both a sharp bend in the Wisconsin River near present day Nekoosa, Wisconsin, as well as to a nearby historic village downstream from the point itself, the village no longer being in existence.
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Samuel Marsden Brookes
Samuel Marsden Brookes (8 March 1816, Newington Green, Middlesex – 31 January 1892, San Francisco) was an English-born American painter.
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Scare quotes
Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes,Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Penguin (2014) sneer quotes, and quibble marks) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.
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Siege of Fort Mackinac
The Siege of Fort Mackinac was one of the first engagements of the War of 1812.
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Siege of Fort Meigs
The siege of Fort Meigs took place in late April to early May 1813 during the War of 1812 in northwestern Ohio, present-day Perrysburg.
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Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by and enslavement of Native Americans roughly within what is currently the United States of America.
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The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American tribe formed in the late eighteenth century from communities of so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Munsee (Lenape), from the area where present-day New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey meet.
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Thomas L. McKenney
Thomas Loraine McKenney (21 March 1785 – 19 February 1859) was a United States official who served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1824–1830. Chief Oshkosh and Thomas L. McKenney are 1858 deaths.
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Treaty of Lake Poygan
The Treaty of Lake Poygan arranged for the sale of of Menominee Native American lands in Wisconsin to the government of the United States for $350,000 plus in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, west of the upper Mississippi River, to which the Menominee were asked to move.
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Treaty of the Cedars
The Treaty of the Cedars was an 1836 agreement between the Menominee Indian nation and the United States in which the Menominee ceded to the United States about of land for $700,000.
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Treaty of Washington, with Menominee (1831)
The Treaty of Washington (1831) was a treaty between the Menominee (an American Indian tribe) and the United States Government.
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Tribal chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
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William Medill
William Medill (February 1802September 2, 1865) was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician from Ohio.
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William S. Hamilton
William Stephen Hamilton (August 4, 1797October 9, 1850), a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, was an American politician and miner who lived much of his life in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
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Wisconsin River
The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Territory
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
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Wolf River (Fox River tributary)
The Wolf River is a longU.S. Geological Survey.
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See also
Menominee people
- Ada Deer
- Alaqua Cox
- Apesanahkwat
- Chief Oshkosh
- Ingrid Washinawatok
- Josette Vieau Juneau
- Madam La Compt
- Marcus Oliveira
- Narcisse Juneau
- Paul Juneau
- Sheila Tousey
Native American people from Wisconsin
- Alaqua Cox
- Alonzo D. Dick
- Andaigweos
- Biauswah (I)
- Chief Oshkosh
- Cora Elm
- Ingrid Washinawatok
- Lila Greengrass Blackdeer
- Louis Leroy (baseball)
- Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc
- Murder of Susan Poupart
- Nancy Cornelius
- Purcell Powless
- Sheila Tousey
- Simon Kahquados
- Walter Bresette
- William Fowler (Brothertown Indian)
- Wilson Charles
- Yellow Thunder
Native Americans in the War of 1812
- Apuckshunubbee
- Battle of Autossee
- Battle of Calebee Creek
- Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
- Captain Logan
- Chief Oshkosh
- Daniel Bread
- Dinah John
- Goingsnake
- Governor Blacksnake
- John Lewis (Shawnee leader)
- Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo)
- Louis Cook
- Mushulatubbee
- Neamathla
- Nikonha
- Pushmataha
- Roundhead (Wyandot)
- Samuel George
- Sequoyah
- Snake (Shawnee leader)
- Stone Eater
- Tamaha (Dakota scout)
- Tecumseh
- Tecumseh's confederacy
- Tenskwatawa
- Thomas Perryman
- Tishomingo
- Walk-in-the-Water
- Wanata
- Wapasha II
- Waubonsie
- White Loon
- Winamac
Native Americans of the Black Hawk War
- Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
- Checokalako
- Chief Oshkosh
- Joc-O-Sot
- Keokuk (Sauk leader)
- Neapope
- Pamisseu
- Shabbona
- Shick Shack
- Towaunonne
- Wabokieshiek
- Wapasha II
- Wapello (chief)
- Waubonsie
- Waukon Decorah
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Oshkosh
, Treaty of Washington, with Menominee (1831), Tribal chief, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States, War of 1812, William Medill, William S. Hamilton, Wisconsin, Wisconsin River, Wisconsin Territory, Wolf River (Fox River tributary).