Ozaawindib

Ozaawindib ("Yellow Head" in English, recorded variously as Oza Windib, O-zaw-wen-dib, O-zaw-wan-dib, Ozawondib, etc.)

Ozaawindib's father was Wiishkobak ("Sweet" or "Le Sucre", recorded as "Wesh-ko-bug"), a chief of the Leech Lake Pillagers.

[4] By 1800, the Pillagers, including Ozaawindib, lived on Gaa-Miskwaawaakokaag near Leech Lake - terrain earlier inhabited by the Dakota people, who engaged in warfare with migrating Ojibwe.

"[3] When Tanner encamped on the Red River of the North around 1800, he reports that he was the subject of interest of Ozaawindib, who at that time was about 50 years old and already had several husbands.

Marie to inform the Indian agent, Henry Schoolcraft, about a war party from Leech Lake, departing to pursue the Dakota.

Wiishkobak, Ozaawindib’s brother or father, [ note 1 ] [ 1 ] in 1825 at Prairie du Chien .