Medweganoonind

Medweganoonind (meaning "who is heard spoken to," recorded variously in English as Med-we-gan-on-int,[1] May-dway-gon-on-ind,[2] May-dway-gwa-no-nind[3] and Ma-dwa-ga-no-nint;[4] died 1897[1] or 1898,[4] lived approximately 84[1] or 91 years[3]) was a chief of the Ojibwe tribe at Red Lake, Minnesota.[1]

Medweganoonind was a tall and strong man. According to Joseph Gilfillan, "Nobility was stamped upon all his actions and words and his looks...He was very level-headed, true to his friends, patient under seeming neglect, unselfish, and of such a broad vision and sound judgment as would have made him an ideal ruler anywhere."[1]

Medweganoonind was the head chief of the Red Lake Band at the time of the 1889 treaty negotiations, intended to implement the Nelson Act of 1889. He took responsibility in front of a visiting commission appointed by President Benjamin Harrison[5] for defending the rights of the Red Lake Band to a diminished reservation at Red Lake.[3] That reservation remained the common property of the tribe, and was not individually allotted as the U.S. government preferred.

The Medweganoonind Library of Red Lake Nation College is named after Chief Medweganoonind.[6]

References
  1. Gilfillan, Joseph A. (April 1901). "The Ojibways in Minnesota". Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Monthly Meeting of the Executive Council, Minnesota Historical Society, November 8, 1897. Vol. 9. pp. 75–76. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  2. Lawrence, Melvin (ed.). "1889 - Minnesota Chippewa Commission". Maquah Publications. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  3. Mittelholtz, Erwin F. "Noted Red Lake and Pembina Ojibwa Names". Agreement of 1889: The Treaty and Agreement of 1889 with the Red Lake Band of the Chippewas (PDF). pp. 129–137. Retrieved 29 June 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. Whipple, Henry Benjamin (1899). "Chapter XIII". Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate. New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. 142–152. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  5. Harrison, Benjamin (4 March 1890). Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. (eds.). "Message to Congress Reporting on the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  6. "Medweganoonind Library". Red Lake Nation College. Retrieved 19 June 2022.


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