Draft:Shaw-Waw-Nas-See

• Comment: This might be helpful which indicates he also went by Billy Caldwell. S0091 (talk) 19:47, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Sources are either primary or not about Shaw-Waw-Nas-See, the person. I suggest trying Google Books but in-depth coverage from multiple sources about Shaw-Waw-Nas-See is required. S0091 (talk) 19:32, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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Shaw-Waw-Nas-See
Born	Unknown Around the Kankakee River
Died	1834 Little Rock Village, Kankakee, Illinois
Cause of death	Old age
Resting place	Rock Creek (Kankakee River tributary)
Nationality	Potawatomi
Other names	Shau-Waw-Nas-See, Shawnessi, Southern Fog, Shaw-Way-Nay-See, Shaw-Wa-Nan-See
Occupation	Native American chief
Known for	Being Head Chief of Little Rock Village, one of the largest Potawatomi villages, and signing the 1833 Treaty of Chicago and other treaties.
Title	Chief
Spouse	Ki-kit-o-quah
Children	Wais-Ke-Shaw
Signature
Shaw-waw-nas-see's X mark from the 1833 Treaty of Chicago

Shaw-Waw-Nas-See (also Shau-Waw-Nas-See, died 1834), was a Potawatomi Chief in Illinois during the 19th century.

Possible daughter

According to Wagner, Shawanasse had a daughter Wais-Ke-Shaw who was born circa 1800.

Village

Shawanasse had a village called "Little Rock Village" that was located on the north bank of the Kankakee River now located on the southern tip of Rock Creek Woods in Kankakee.

Windrose Site

The Windrose Site is a 19th-century Potawatomi village site in Kankakee County, Illinois. The site is likely associated with a Potawatomi village named "Rock" or "Little Rock" (likely Senis in Potawatomi); it was occupied from circa 1775 until the Potawatomi were forcibly removed from Illinois in the 1830s. Many of the artifacts recovered from the site are related to the fur trade, a large part of the Potawatomi economy and a source of cultural interaction between the Potawatomi and Europeans. The majority of the artifacts reflect traditional Potawatomi culture, including smoking pipes used for religious rituals. Items deriving from the U.S. government's efforts at the time to force European culture upon Native Americans represent less than 5% of those found at the site, a sign that these efforts were not particularly successful with the Potawatomi.

Treaty at Camp Tippecanoe

On October 20th, 1832, Shawanasse signed a treaty at Camp Tippecanoe in Indiana and was given 5 sections of land to add to his village.

1833 Treaty of Chicago

On September 26th, 1833, Shawanasse signed the 1833 Treaty of Chicago at Chicago, Illinois and was paid $40 ($1215 in 2021) to compensate for a horse that was stolen from his village late during the Blackhawk War.

Sale of Shawanasse's Land

At Quiquito's camp near Logansport, on a hot July afternoon in 1833, Shawanasee sat cross-legged on a faded blue blanket. To his left, slightly behind, hovered his wife Kekitoquah. Joseph, the interpreter, a lean, aging French-Ottawa, one-time point man in the Indian country for Lewis Cass, sat on a folding camp chair next to Indian Sub-agent Nicolas Grover. Dr. Hiram Todd and Justice of the Peace Jacob Bowen lounged in the shade of nearby trees and waited as Joseph explained to the old chief why it was necessary that he again put his mark on a deed to the land on Rock Creek, over in Illinois. "Last time," said Joseph in a loud voice, using his hands to make signs, "Kekitoquah should have been told that the White Father in Washington says a husband can not sell his property unless his wife agrees, since the wife is entitled to one-third of her husband's property during her lifetime. Now, Justice Bowen has told Kekitoquah her rights, and she agrees to the sale and will sign the deed." Shawanasee watched Joseph's face intently, glancing at the moving hands from time to time. When Joseph finished Shawanasee smiled broadly and said something to his wife. She made no reply, but reached over and placed her fingers on the back of the chief's hand. "Do you understand?" asked Joseph. Shawanasee nodded and his eyes brightened. "My wife is entitled to some money, then I should raise the price." Joseph shook his head. "You can not ask for more money. The price agreed on last March is legal. This is just a formality." "Is there a problem?" asked Todd. "No," said Joseph in English, keeping his eyes on Shawanasee, "Chief Shawanasee is pleased the White Father in Washington remembers his wife's rights." Agent Grover tapped Joseph's shoulder. "Cut out the didoes. Get that ol' reneger to sign the damn thing; it's too hot to sit here and let the flies carry us off." Joseph handed the quill to Kekitoquah. "You make your mark,"he said, pointing to the deed. Shawanasee stared straight ahead through half-closed eyes, his ancient face emotionless, as if carved from solid, smoke-darkened oak. "Mau-tchi-a-ke-we-si," he said, in a rasping voice that had the silky rustle of a snake's skin coiling across granite. "Mau'chon, aiabita'wi animos!" Grover leaned forward in his chair. "Pe'naw! Insults won't help." Glaring at Kekitoquah he said, "Mark the paper, squaw, and give the quill to your husband." Shawanasee sat erect, his eyes of land on Rock Creek in Kankakee County where thereby sold to Dr. Hirma Todd, originally of Ohio fixed on the distant Wabash River. Kekitoquah placed the quill between the fingers of his right hand. The old man remained unmoving for a full minute. Did they not remember, he mused, how Wabunouwenene struck down the Kitchimokomans, the Big Knives, took a bit of their hair and stuffed their dead mouths with dirt so they would not carry the land-hungry disease into the spirit world? It is a strange sickness that demands more and more marks on paper. The hand that no enemy could resist in battle, that had sent a thousand deadly arrows and as many musket balls flying to their mark moved with a quick stabbing stroke and a flourish. Joseph handed the signed deed to Todd. "Now that you have stolen my wife's property," said Shawanasee in the French patois peculiar to the fur trade, which he knew Todd understood, "Do you plan to steal my wife, also?" "No, old friend," replied Todd, "I have done only what the law requires and I have presents." Todd took a bundle from behind his saddle and emptied the contents on the chief's blanket. There were two clasp knives, shot and powder, a razor, a looking glass, tobacco, packets of fine glass beads, needles, a bolt of calico, colored silk thread and ribbons. "And this," said Todd, pulling a short-barreled flintlock rifle from its scabbard. "For your trip west." The old chief admired the rifle for a moment, sighting along the barrel, examining the brass bound stock. "What kind of a friend gives such a handsome gun but not the horse that goes with it?" he asked. "A thoughtless friend," said Todd. "Send your eldest son around to my house tomorrow and you shall have the horse." This was the last time Todd and Shawanasee would meet. Of the 400 Potawatomi gathered at Logansport that summer for removal west, only 67 were delivered to Leavenworth, Kansas, in the fall. The rest, Shawanasee among them, discouraged by delay, poor planing, and mismanagement of the removal plans, returned to their villages in Indiana and Illinois. The sale of Shawanasee's reserve to Todd was finally approved by President Martin Van Buren, Aug. 8, 1840.

Artifacts

Image of the knife now owned by the Kankakee County Museum.

Steel Knife: This steel knife is a gift to Shaw-waw-nas-see from the United States government at the completion of the signing of the treaty between the Chippewas, Ottawas and Pottawatomie at Chicago. The knife was given to Major Robert J. Boylan, surveyor of the Shaw-waw-nas-see Reservation near Rock Creek, by Shaw-waw-nas-see a few years prior to the chief's death.

Death and burial

In 1834, less than a year after signing the treaty at Tippecanoe, the chief died. The chiefs' men had two of his white settler friends Rev Benjamin Scroggins and George Beckworth build the chief's burial cabin.

His grave was a miniature structure of split puncheons, approximately three feet square. Or in another description we read that it was 3 feet wide, 4 feet long and 4 or 5 feet high, made of split logs and notched at the corners. the roof was made of 'shakes', held in place by large flat stones laid thereon. On the western side was a small, square aperture cut in the logs, so that during ceremonial feasts held for the dead, the old Chief's portion might be set there.

The blanketed body of was placed in the structure in a sitting position. The articles buried with him were a rifle, brass kettle, tomahawk, scalping knife, pipes, pouch of tobacco.

The Chief's rifle, tomahawk, pipes and tobacco were stolen some time later by one Joseph Shabonier, a voyageur and a 'squatter'.

Later, the skeleton of the Chief disappeared. The rumor was that a doctor from Rush Medical School had stolen it and displayed it in his office saying that it was of a prominent Indian chief.