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- Augustin Grignon's Recollections:
In the first place, 0-kee-wah is no Menomonee, as she represents herself to be, for nationality is reckoned on the mother's side. Her mother, Non-non-ga-nah, was early captured by the Ottawas from the Pawnees or Osages, or some other Western tribe, and a year or two after being brought to Green Bay had 0-kee-wah, some said by Charles De Langlade, and she subsequently had four husbands, all Ottawas except the last, who was a Menomonee, and, had children by them all; and O-kee-wah herself has had three husbands, the two former were Chippewas, and the latter a Menomonee
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