Chippewa Chief John ?
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content: OPPS NEG.468 C
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Gwey-Wence
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content: Wrinkled Meat
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa
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content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Printed on back of stereoscopic photo: Chief John (?)-th Was born near Cass Lake, Minn, in 1788. His Indian name was Ka-be-na Gwey-Wence, which means Wrinkled Meat. He was early taught by his father to hunt and fish and to trail and trap the wild animals of the forest for their fur and meat. Of his mother he says: "No temptation could ever induce me to disobey her or do a wrong act knowingly. Because of this more than anything else I believe that I have lived such a long life and had such good health." He tells of the first time he looked upon a white man. "One day when I was about 13 years old, my father and I met in the forest a strange looking warrior, all white, like snow. We had never seen any man before that was not red. My ! How frightened we were of this stange being. We thought him a spirit or a great medicine man of some other tribe. This white man told my father of (a) wonderful race of men like himself that (lived ?) toward the rising sun, and of their wonderful cities, of their big boats and churches and schools. He said some day grat cities would be built here with schools and churches and other fine buildings. Then, pointing his finger at me, he said; "This boy will live to see all the great things of which I tell you." Chief John did live to see them all, and more.

After he was 100 years old he visited many of our great cities. He (saw ?) McKinley inaugurated president. ( ? ) he attended the Minnesota S ( ? ) where he saw the wonderful product - (? ) white race. Chief John died (?) 1922, and was buried at Cass Lake (?) he had lived all his life. A short time be(fore he died ?) he said: "It is well, all things( ? ) the good of the Great Spirit, and I am (?). In the Big Wigwam above, where (?) Great Spirit, who shall say but what (?) shall be among the ones favored." An interesting booklet (of the) life of this old Chippewa Chief may be (purchased ?) for fifty cents by writing his adopted son, (?) E. Smith, P. O. Box 153, Cass Lake, Minnesota.