''Bayaaswaa'' (''Aan'aawenh'' (Pintail Duck)

doodem The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe language, Ojibwe word for clan () was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based ma ...

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. (1853) ''Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States.'', Vol. 2, p. 142.) was an

Ojibwa The Ojibwe (; syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and thro ...

Chief of a village on the south shore of

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, located about 40 miles west of

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, in the late 17th century. According to

William Whipple Warren William Whipple Warren (May 27, 1825 – June 1, 1853) was a historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. The son of Lyman Marcus Warren, an American fur trader and Mary Cadotte, the Ojibwe-Metis daughter of fur trader M ...

, based on

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regarding ''Bayaaswaa'', he was known for his prowess and wise counsel. Warren continues that when ''Bayaaswaa'' returned from a day's hunting, he found his villagers massacred by the

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. Upon tracking the Fox, he found they had two captives: an old man that was tortured to death and a boy that was just about ready to be tortured. Warren then states:

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