O Che Chag O Ke Shig Oke is a Red Lake Band of Chippewa woman

The Legend of Red Lake
According to Ojibway legend, thousands of years ago two warriors of the the Chippeway nation came upon a very large moose beside a lake. They believed the beast was Matchee Manitou (evil spirit) and tried to kill it. Wounded, the animal escaped by diving deep into the lake. A large pool of blood coloured the water red, and the hunters named the body of water Misque Sakigon, or Colour of Blood Lake. Over the years it became known as Red Lake.

Source: Map of Red Lake Indian Reservation, 1911 “MNopedia | Minnesota Encyclopedia.” Mnopedia.org, 2019, www.mnopedia.org/. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA)
The tribe claims the land by right of conquest and aboriginal title; they were not reassigned to it by the United States government. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa refused to join with six other bands in organizing as the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in the mid-1930s; at the time, its people wanted to preserve their traditional system of hereditary chiefs, rather than forming an electoral government.
The seven principal clans (doodems) found on the Red Lake Indian Reservation are makwa (bear), mikinaak (turtle), owaazisii (bullhead), nigig (otter), migizi (eagle), waabizheshi (marten), and ogiishkimanisii (kingfisher).

The view of early Red Lake looking west...Photo Courtesy of North Central Minnesota Historical Center

An Ojibwe family at their home on the Red Lake Reservation, ca. 1930.
From the mid -1870s to the early 1920s, the quest for furs, then for minerals, brought Europeans to the area. In the summer of 1925, two brothers, Lorne and Ray Howey, discovered gold under the roots of an upturned tree. This event triggered the last great gold rush in North America, the birth of commercial bush flying in Canada, and the founding of the town of Red Lake. More than 3,000 people converged on Red Lake at the height of the Gold Rush of 1926. As of July 2014, approximately 27 million troy ounces (839 tonnes) of gold have been mined in the Red Lake area.
Source: “Red Lake History.” RED LAKE REGIONAL HERITAGE CENTRE, www.redlakemuseum.com/red-lake-history.html.

Biography:
O Che Chag O Ke Shig Oke, aka Maud(e) Thunder was born c. 1865 to an unknown father and Chippewa mother May dway nah kab zhe oke. (Possible parents were father Ah ne me ke we gwon (B=1849) and mother Ah be je ke zhig oke-Old Lady Rosebear (b=1859), based on mothers surname and the fact that she moves from line 28 in the 1916 census to line 1 in the 1917 census apparently after the death of her husband she became the most respected in the band)

She had two younger brothers. She also had seven (7) children between 1885 and 1902.

According to the book Vanished n Hiawatha, author Carla Joinson states that Maud was admitted on July 17, 1906 or in August 1908. On admission she was diagnosed with periodic insanity, which was revised to manic-depressive in 1910 by Dr. Harry Hummer in 1910 but she is not in Table 8 as a patient because she had been discharged in March. maud had been discharged on March 23, 1910

Her name is spelled by Canton as Oche chago oke zhig oke, spelled by Carla Joinson as Oche-chago-oke-zhig-oke, and with multiple other spelling variations through the census reports.

In the June 30, 1891 census she is indicated as living separately from her mother and brothers, with a son/daughter Nay nah e gwon abe (b=1890) age 2, so she was married in 1888/89, at this time the name of her husband is unknown although it is likely "NN Thunder". Census reports are split on whether this is a son or a daughter

Maud married John Thunder c. 1900 as the 1914 census shows a daughter b=1900 and son b=1903

Her profile is part of the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Canton_Asylum.

Research Notes:
-In the 1880's not only were these people Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians but within this band there were sub-bands under different chiefs
-It is interesting to note that the same syllables are used in different sequences to form a different name.
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Sources:

1886 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll649unit/page/n402/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 403/906, line 176 (age 21 as O ge chag o ke shig oke), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1887 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll649unit/page/n635/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 636/906, line 189 (age 23 as O ge chag o ke shig oke, single), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1888 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll649unit/page/n824/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 825/906, line 179 (age 24 as O ge chag o ke shig oke, single), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1890 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll650unit/page/n29/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 30/819, line 177 (age 25), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1891 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll650unit/page/n267/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 268/819, line 180 (age 26), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1892 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll650unit/page/n715/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 716/819, line 181 (age 27), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

(Curator Note: it appears that her 70 year-old mother is living with her using the name O zhe neu e ge shig oke)

1894 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll651unit/page/n125/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 126/567, line 454 (age 29), census of the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1895 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll651unit/page/n523/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 524/567, line 454 (age 30), census of the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1896 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll652unit/page/n33/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 34/735, line 460 (age 31), census of the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1897 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W72X-P4ZM : Sun Mar 10 22:26:34 UTC 2024), Entry for Oche Chug O Ke Zhig Oke, 0189, pg. 428/738, line 509 (age 32), census of the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians, White Earth Agency, Minnesota

1899 Jul 1 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll243unit/page/n35/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 36/608, line 507 (age 34), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1900 Sep 1 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll243unit/page/n276/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 277/608, line 947 (age 35), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1901 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll243unit/page/n362/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 363/608, line 510 (age 36), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1902 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QR75-RMPZ : Sat Mar 09 17:33:54 UTC 2024), Entry for Oche Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 536/611, line xxx (age 37), census of the Cass Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish bands of the Pillager Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1903 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll244unit/page/n27/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 28/458, line 520 (age 38), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1904 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7MRN-BZW2 : Fri Mar 08 17:12:29 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 272/461, line 527 (age 39), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1905 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7M5X-VWMM : Fri Mar 08 20:47:27 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, from 1900 to 1999, pg. 424/461, line 543 (age 40), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1906 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QRLY-FBW2 : Sun Mar 10 13:22:00 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 34/779, line 545 (age 41), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota

1907 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7KW7-ZHPZ : Wed Mar 06 21:40:24 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 33/455, line 545 (age 42), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1908 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll418unit/page/n89/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 90/452, line 534 (age 43), census of the Red Lake Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1909 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7KWH-MH3Z : Sat Mar 09 00:09:48 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 161/455, line 547 (age 44), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn

1910 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll418unit/page/n240/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 241/542, line 583 (age 45), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn

1911 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7K7P-XY3Z : Sat Mar 09 05:44:31 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 349/455, line 1005 (age 47), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn

1913 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JJ1-L4N2 : Fri Mar 08 20:27:45 UTC 2024), Entry for , from 1900 to 1999, pg. 67/541, line 1029 (b=1866), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn

1914 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll419unit/page/n90/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 91/538, line 3 (b=1866), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1915 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll419unit/page/n180/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 181/538, line 3 (b=1865), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1916 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll419unit/page/n267/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 268/538, line 2 (b=1865), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1917 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll419unit/page/n357/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 358/538, line 3 (b=1865), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

There was no 1918 census!

1919 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J6Y-B7PZ : Sat Mar 09 05:49:46 UTC 2024), Entry for Maud Thunder, pg. 509/541, line 1031 (b=1865), census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn

1920 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7PRZ-HTW2 : Sun Mar 10 07:41:38 UTC 2024), Entry for O Che Chog O Ke Zhig Oke, pg. 71/545, line 1071 (b=1865), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1921 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll420unit/page/n165/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 166/542, line 1062 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

(Curator Note: daughter Catherine Grace has disappeared, married or died)

1922 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll420unit/page/n328/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 329/542, line 1089 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

(Curator Note: son Sam Rainey is line 1217 living BHS)

1923 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll420unit/page/n516/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 517/542, line 1123 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1924 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll421unit/page/n97/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 98/693, line 1546 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1925 Apr 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll421unit/page/n204/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 205/693, line 1585 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1926 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll421unit/page/n309/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 310/693, line 1597 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1927 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll421unit/page/n416/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 417/693, line 1613 (b=1865 as Maud Thunder), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1928 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll421unit/page/n525/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 526/693, line xxxx (Died June 14, 1928), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota