in Ojbiwe, Siggenauk; chief of a mixed community of various tribes at Milwaukee in the 1770's; he supported Americans during the American Revolution and assisted George Rogers Clark in repelling the British advance on the Mississippi Valley in 1780.

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[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]