This is the link to the book I got there: http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/catalog/essays.htm This is the link to the picture of Kewadin: http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/catalog/indian9.htm This is a link to all of the images: http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/catalog/images.htm -------Original Message------- From: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Date: 04/19/04 14:04:21 To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Kewadin Is there anything else out there on KEWADIN? ===== Larry L. Cartwright __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

> This is the link to the picture of Kewadin: > http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/catalog/indian9.htm FWIW, this from CHARLEVOIX SENTINEL (1 March 1884) KE-WAYDIN : Demise of the Last of the Objibways Near Elk Rapids : From the Progress : There died last week at We-que-ge-mog, an Indian village situated at the head of Elk Lake, three miles from Elk Rapids, and Indian named Ke-waydin (Northwest wind) whose history is worthy of notice as being the last of the pure-blooded Objibways or Chippewas remaining in this section. His exact age cannot be ascertained, but there is no doubt that he was a grown man at the time of the last war with England, in which he served on the British side, under Ash-qua-gwan-a-ba, the principal of the five Chiefs then having control of the Chippewa tribes scattered through Michigan, Wisconsin and the north shore of Lake Superior. Twenty years ago, when the writer first knew him, he was the greatest hunter in this section, coming in each spring with a pack of furs twice as large as anyone else. He has for many years been regarded by other Indians as the special emissary of "Matchi-Manitou," the evil spirit of the Chippewas. This belief had existed among the Indians professing Christianity, as well as those who do not, and whenever any misfortune overtook one of the tribe, it has usually been attributed to the "Bad Medicine" of Ke-way-din. So great was this fear, and firm their belief in his power, that one of the most intelligent of his tribe was kept in involuntary exile over two years, and only allowed to return when Ke-way-din allowed him to do so. Ke-way-din had a box or chest which contained the dried skins of some eight varieties of snakes, dried toads and lizards, and also the stuffed skin of a beaver, which he asserted would, upon being filled with the "Bad Medicine" compounded from the snake and toad skins, and pushed back and forth by him three times, emit fire from his nostrils, and run about the wigwam. When he desired to punish an enemy he would go to the woods, make the picture of a man on birch bark or paper, mix some of the "Bad Medicine" and having smeared an arrow with it, insert it in portion of the picture which represented the particular organ he wished to afflict with disease-in the head if to affect the brain or in the heart if death was to be the result. He was not a medicine man in the sense of being a physician, but a necromancer and wizard and those even who are in daily contact with the Indians would never suspect how widely the belief in witchcraft prevailed among them. He was present and participated in the massacre of the River Raisin many incidents concerning which he was fond of relating, and which were undoubtedly true. About two months since he became converted to Christianity, through the efforts of a Roman Catholic priest and for the first time abandoned his beaver, snake and toad skins, giving them away. He died at his daughter's home, she having cared for him gently and kindly. The Ottawas and Chippewas are fast becoming extinct, only a few of the younger remaining, the balance being half and quarter breeds.