Wawatam

Ojibwa Chief Wawatam statue in Mackinaw City.

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]

  1. ^ Cleland, Charles E., Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans (The University of Michigan Press, 1992) p.138
  2. ^ "A Tribal History Of The Little Traverse Bay Bands Of Odawa Indians". Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Retrieved September 13, 2015.