Beautifying Bird
Chief Beautifying Bird or Dressing Bird (Nay-naw-ong-gay-be, Na-naw-ong-ga-be, or Ne-na-nang-eb ("Nenaa'angebi" in the Fiero orthography of Ojibwe), meaning "[Bird that] Fixes-up Its Wing-feathers"), (1794–1855) was a principal chief of the Prairie Rice Lake Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, originally located near Rice Lake, Wisconsin. He served as the principal chief about the middle of the 19th century. He was noted chiefly as an orator, and as the father of Ah-shah-way-gee-she-go-qua ("Ashaweia"), who was the only Ojibwe woman ever  to earn full "ogichidaakwe" (warrior) status. The Wisconsin Historical Society claims that Nay-naw-ong-gay-be is described as having been of "less than medium height and size," and having "intelligent features." Family. Chief "Nenaa'angebi" was of the "Nibiinaabe-doodem" (Merman Clan), according to the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. He was a twin son of Chief "Ozaawindib", sometimes recorded as being of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band. "Ozaawindib" gave away the twin brother of "Nenaa'angebi" to the community of the Snake River sub-band of the "Biitan-akiing-enabijig  (Border-sitters"), an Ojibwa-Dakota group, in order to make peace with them and to provide them with a hereditary chief. That son became known as Chief "Shagobay"/"Zhaagobe". Chief "Nenaa'angebi"'s wife was "Niigi'o" (recorded as "Niguio"). They had two sons and four daughters. Life. Chief "Nenaa'angebi" was a treaty signatory to the 1842 and 1854 Treaties of La Pointe. His Band was consolidated with Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians after the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe and assigned land to a common reservation. Before he could see the promises of the 1854 Treaty fulfilled, he  died in 1855. Chief "Nenaa'angebi" was buried near the high hill at Prairie Farm. The Wisconsin Historical Society installed a historic marker nearby to memorialize this site. The Society also honored him with a portrait of Chief "Nenaa'angebi" in its library in Madison, Wisconsin, according to a 1933 letter from the Society to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Bracklin. Legacy. "Wabashish", the eldest son, succeeded his father as Chief of the Prairie Rice Lake community of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band. However, shortly afterward, "Shák'pí" lead an ambush on the band. Chief "Nenaa'angebi"'s wife "Niigi'o" was seriously injured in this  raid, and later died. "Niigi'o" was buried near the west bank of the Red Cedar River on the north end of Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Highway 48 was constructed a few feet away from the site. In defending her village during the ambush, "Aazhawigiizhigokwe" killed "Shák'pí"'s son, her own cousin.