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- From Bruce Paulson:
He was a member of the mixed band of Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi Indians living at what is now Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He was the sixth signer of The Treaty of Chicago 1826. He was also a first cousin of Chief Wagemasago or as he was known by the Caucasians, Chief Mexico. Chief Mexico's portrait is in the Rahr Museum at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Killed in a drunken brawl at Duck Creek, Brown County, Wisconsin during the winter of 1838/1839 by another Indian over a rifle. Pashakesick was pulling on the wrong end of the loaded gun. Another version of his death is found in EARLY DUCK CREEK HISTORY by Jeanne and Les Rentmeester (second edition, 2006) There is reference to the Menominee Indian burial grounds at Duck Creek in a story about the murder in 1840 of the local medicine man Skinny Otter by another Indian, Pashakesick. The Menominee passed a death sentence on Pashakesick but the white settlers took away their guns in order to prevent a hasty execution. According to the story the women then massacred Pashakesick and displayed his battered body on the Indian burial grounds. Finally some of the more compassionate people then dug a grave for the body.
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1880 - 1838