His Ho-Chunk name is generally given in printed sources as Waw-kaun-ween-kaw. An important elder during the first third of the 19th-century, he was a signer of the Treaty of Rock Island in September 1832. He belonged to the Ho-Chunk band located on Rock River near Lake Koshkonong and subsequently died on Turkey River, Iowa.

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[Source: Wisconsin Historical Collections X: 186 (1888)]