Glory of the Morning
She was the daughter of the chief of the tribe,[6] and therefore a member of the Thunderbird Clan who lived in a large village on Doty Island in what is now Menasha, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
A small force of French troops under the command of Sabrevoir de Carrie visited the Hocągara and established cordial relations.
[9] As the French struggled with the Meskwaki over the fur trade, Glory of the Morning firmly allied herself with her husband's people, precipitating seven years of war with their neighbors.
However, when the British overcame the French, Glory of the Morning established friendly relations with them and refused to tread the war path of Pontiac.
Jonathan Carver, a Connecticut Yankee in the service of the Crown, paid a visit to her village in 1766, and he gives an interesting account of her: On the 25th [of September] I left the Green Bay, and proceeded up Fox River, still in company with the traders and some Indians.
Here the queen who presided over this tribe instead of a Sachem, received me with great civility, and entertained me in a very distinguished manner, during the four days I continued with her.
Having made some acceptable presents to the good old queen, and received her blessing, I left the town of the Winnebagoes on the 29th of September ...[11]Nothing more is heard of her until the Kinzies visited her in 1832.
Her eyes dimmed, and almost white with age—her face dark and withered, like a baked apple—her voice tremulous and feeble, except when raised in fury to reprove her graceless grandsons, who were fond of playing her all sorts of mischievous tricks, indicated the very great age she must have attained.
On the day of the payment, having received her portion, which she carefully hid in the corner of her blanket, she came crawling along and seated herself on the door step, to count her treasure....
Strangely, during the raging blizzard that engulfed the village that night, the rare sound of thunder could be heard, as the patron deities of her clan called her home.
