Simon Kahquados
Simon Kahquados, born Kakanisaiga, (May 18, 1851 – November 27, 1930) was a leader of the Potawatomi people in Wisconsin, United States, and played a pivotal role in creating the federally recognized Forest County Potawatomi Community. Biography Simon Kahquados, whose Potawatomi language, Potawatomi name was Kakanisaiga, was born on May 18, 1851, in Black Earth, Wisconsin (Potawatomi village), Black Earth, a Potawatomi village located in the present-day Carlton, Wisconsin, Town of Carlton, Wisconsin. His father died in 1856, and he was raised by his grandfather near Whitefish Bay, Door County, Wisconsin, Whitefish Bay, Door County, Wisconsin, Door County. In 1862, the Potawatomi in Door County and Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, Kewaunee County were forced from their land and became refugees, dividing into small bands and moving to northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Kahquados was in a band that moved into the Upper Peninsula in 1864, where he hunted and trapped ...
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