This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: topinebee bourassa Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/362.2.1.2 Message Board Post: James, on the three fires message board , you said something about not ever seeing a connection of native to the bourassa name. however, under your postings of Bertrand Genealogy Madeline Topinebee is a Bourassa. Now i am not pretending to know what the answers are to this confusing puzzle but you have to check out what i found at deeds and nations: amazing; Topenebee / Topinabee / Topenibe [fl. 1813 onwards; died in 1840], principal Pottawatomie chief from the St. Joseph River, Neshnabek clan; a drunkard according to Hoyt; brother of Chiefs Weesaw, Chebass and Pottawatomie principal woman Kaukema, son of Pottawatomie Chief Anaquiba, uncle of Pottawatomie Chief Tonquish, adoptive brother of Catholic Pottawatomie Chief Pokagon, father of Chief Leopold Pokagon; he opposed the Pottawatomie actions at Fort Dearborn in 1813; he was a Baptist church supporter; presided at and signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795; Topenebee the younger signed the US Treaty of Chicago, September 27, 1833, which led to the removal of the Pottawatomie Nation from Michigan (US 1837: 54, 297; Clifton 1975: 30, 55, 99-101; Clifton, Cornell, and McClurken: 52, 62; Tanner: 135, MPHSC vol. XXXV: 149). 'Father, we do not care for the land or the money or the goods offered us. What we want is whisky! Give us whisky!' [said to have been spoken with sarc! asm]— c. 1830 (MPHSC vol. XXXV: 149). I don't know but i thought the treaty was signed in 1821 is this a different treaty? I am going to do some more searching we have Topinabee the "younger" we have an 1840 death date here we have that the younger signed for the removal we have that he is the "adoptive brother of Chief Pokagaon" HMMM???????????????????? here is the url for this site: http://www.adamsheritage.com/deedsnations/references.htm the editorial info:Edited by Frank Davey & Neal Ferris 1996 Occasional Publication of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society Inc. London Chapter, OAS c/o 55 Centre Street, London, Ontario N6J 1T6 (519) 675-7742 Prepared for the Web by Nick Adams Adams Heritage i found this info to be very interesting Judi Engle