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Kanapima, an Ottawa Chief
Bass Otis (1784-1861).
Kanapima, an Ottawa Chief. Hand-colored lithograph, Plate 96. McKenney,
Thomas L. & Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Philadelphia:
F.W. Greenough, 1838-1844.
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One Who is Talked of (Ka-na-pi-ma), 1813-? (Ottawa) was baptized Augustin Hamiln, Jr. Catholic
Missionaries sent him and his brother from their home in Northern Michigan to the seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and subsequently to Rome to be educated for the priesthood. The
brother died in Rome in 1834 and Kanapima returned to his native home. As
chief of the Ottawa, he led a delegation to Washington, D.C. in 1835, where this portrait may have been painted.
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