Canku Ota - The First Person History Index

Canku Ota

(Many Paths)

An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America

Here is a List of
The First Person History Articles
We have published in Canku Ota.

Early Life Among the Indians
Reminiscences From the Life Of Benj. G. Armstrong

Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
Embracing the Traditions of his Nation, Various Wars in which He has been Engaged, and his Account of the Cause and General History of the Black Hawk War of 1832 His Surrender, and Travels Through the United States.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan by ANDREW J. BLACKBIRD, Late U.S. Interpreter, Harbor Springs, Emmet Co., Mich.
Contents	Biography of Author	Preface	Acknowledgment
Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 3	Chapter 4
Chapter 5	Chapter 6	Chapter 7	Chapter 8
Chapter 9	Chapter 10	Chapter 11	Chapter 12
Chapter 13	Chapter 14

Grammar -
Nouns, Pronouns and Adjectives	Verbs and minor parts of speech	Vocabularies

Dairy of Chippewa River Trip in 1868
Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four

Interesting Sidelights on the History of the Early Fur Trade Industry
Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four
Part Five	Part Six	Part Seven	Part Eight
Part Nine	Part Ten	Part Eleven

Reminiscences of a Pioneer Missionary - By Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst
Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four
Geographical Names in WI, MN, & MI with Chippewa Origins

Barron County History
Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four

Early Copper Mining History In the Lake Superior Basin
Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four

French Era Copper Mining History on Lake Superior
Part One	Part Two	Part Three

White Boy Grew Up Among Chippewas
Part One	Part Two	Part Three

Myths and Legends of Wisconsin's Waterfalls
Part One	Part Two

Equadon and the Park of a Hundred Springs
Part One	Part Two

Old Abe 'The War Eagle' -- Bartletts additions
Part One	Part Two

Nay-na-ong-gay-bee
Part One	Part Two

A Little History of My Forest Life
Part One	Part Two

Running The Gantlet A Thrilling Incident of Early Days at Fort Snelling
Part One	Part Two

The Indian Priest Father Philip B. Gordon
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Indian Priest Reminisces	Chapter 2 - Ancestry
Chapter 3 - Indian Childhood	Chapter 4 - Life on the Reservation
Chapter 5 - Murder and 'Buried Gold'	Chapter 6 - Happy Reunion
Chapter 7 - Indian Problems	Chapter 8 - College Days
Chapter 9 - Indian Allotments	Chapter 10 - Ordination and More Problems
Chapter 11 - Mission at Reserve	Chapter 12 - The Budding of an Orator
Chapter 13 - Father G. and the KKK	Chapter 14 - Indian Priest and the Irish
Chapter 15 - More Indian Problems	Chapter 16 - Problems on the Farm
Chapter 17 - More KKK and Other Problems	Chapter 18 - An Unforgettable Journey
Chapter 19 - World War II	Chapter 20 - Last Days of a Great Man
References

People

Chief Sky	An Old Indian Chief
Jean Baptiste Perrault	Jean Brunet
Michel Cadotte	The Queen of Pocagemah
Chief White Eagle	Chief Blackbird
Ozhahguscodaywayquay (Woman of the Green Glade)	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Obahbahmwawageezhagoquay)
John Johnston	Judge Henry D. Barron
Yankee Joe	Os-Kosh
Three Indian Orators	An Indian Family Feud
Shabbona	Alexander Besaw
Med-we-a-sing	A Relic From Past - Louis Coulong
The Dream of Onowutaquto - He that Catches the Clouds	Mack-aw-de-be-nessy Picturesque Relic of the Ottawa Tribe
Jean Baptiste Corbine (1767-1866) His Life and Times	Excerpts from: The Explorations of Pierre Espirit Radisson

Events, Stories and Commentaries

Don't Eat the Moose Until You Catch Him		Battle of the Brule
Indians Are Very Bitter		Fair Treatment Denied Indians
Sidelight to the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe		Early Copper History
Who First Mined Copper on Lake Superior?		Old Timer Recalls Site as Early Burial Ground for Superior in 1860s
Additional Fur Trade Letters
Indian Experiences in Superior Fifty Years Ago		Lived Long in Fear of Savage Indians
The Legend of Rice Lake		Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters
Place of Lac du Flambeau in Early Wisconsin History		The 1840 Winnebago Removal
Milwaukee's Legend of Market Square		Place of the Bears
The Phantom of Phantom Lake (SW Milwaukee County)		The 1824 Murder of Mr. Finley and Party at Lake Pepin
The Dead Lake Sioux Band		The 1796 Murder of a Coureur du Bois at Lake Chetac
The Curse of Wisconsin Point		Wisconsin Point War Nears End
Ladder to the Sky		The Derivation of the Word Milwaukee
Starved Rock		1847 Menominee Annuity Payment
15 Ways the Chippewa Forecasted the Weather		Speck of War with Sioux
Here Are Two Versions of The Same Battle Battle of Pokegama		The Troubles of 1827


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