Wawatam (little goose[1]) (fl. 1762 – 1764) was an 18th-century Odawa chief who lived in the northern region of present-day Michigan's Lower Peninsula in an area along the Lake Michigan shoreline known by the Odawa as Waganawkezee (it is bent).[2]
^Cleland, Charles E., Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans (The University of Michigan Press, 1992) p.138
^"A Tribal History Of The Little Traverse Bay Bands Of Odawa Indians". Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
Wawatam (little goose) (fl. 1762 – 1764) was an 18th-century Odawa chief who lived in the northern region of present-day Michigan's Lower Peninsula in...
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Center, Hebron, Maple River, McKinley, Munro, Pleasantview, Readmond, and Wawatam. The school received a composite grade of B from the Michigan Department...
captive and transported to Beaver Island but was rescued by the Odawa Wawatam. The British built the more substantial Fort Mackinac at the site in 1780...
known as the owner and operator, from 1911 until 1984, of the SS Chief Wawatam, an icebreaking train ferry. The Mackinac Transportation Company (MTC)...
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Archive of California. "Alternative uses of the railcar ferry S.S. Chief Wawatam State of Michigan Dept. of Transportation, State of Michigan Dept. of Natural...
Mackinaw City, Michigan, to St. Ignace, Michigan, performed by SS Chief Wawatam at the Straits of Mackinac connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas...
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