Re: Canadian Indian Johnstons
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In reply to:
Canadian Indian Johnstons
Sharon Dee 9/12/00
Ozhawguscodaywaquay--Green Meadow Woman, was from LaPointe, Chequamagon Bay in Wisconsin, at the western tip of Lake Superior.She was of the reindeer clan.Her father was Waubojeeg, a principal chief of the Ojibwe. Her mother was Maydosahghe, his second wife. She married John Johnston, an Irish trader, in 1793, and they lived in Sault Ste. Marie. John died in 1828.They had eight children, four boys, four girls.One daughter, Jane, married Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was a friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Many of the stories Longfellow heard and put into the Song of Hiawatha were told to Schoolcraft by Jane, who learned them from her mother Ozhawguscodaywaquay.Charlotte, Ogebunoquay, born in 1806, married William McMurray in 1833, and moved to Ontario.He became Deacon of Niagara (Anglican Church).She died in 1878 in Ontario. A lot of information is found in the book Hiawatha with its Original Indian Legends, 1944, by Chase and Stellanova Osborn.