Her Hocąk clan name was given as ChakShipEWinKah (van Schaick), which is for Caxšebᵋwiga, "Eagle Woman", from caxšep, "Eagle"; -wį-, a feminine gender infix; -ga, a definite article suffix used in personal names. This is a Thunderbird Clan name.
She was also known simply as "the Woman" (ENooKahKah = Hinųkąga) (1905 census)
Marriages
She was briefly married to a Mr. Batiste (source: van Schaick), then to Mr. Goodbear, after which she had married an older man named "Walking Priest" who was born in 1854, and lived on the reservation in Nebraska. She appears to have separated from him and remained in Wisconsin. (1919 census) She was later married to Messrs. Littlejohn and Mike. (van Schaick)
Sources
1900 Federal Census for Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin; Page: 24; Enumeration District: 0175 (Wittenberg Town, Wittenberg Village); FHL microfilm: 1241817. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
1905 Indian census; Roll: M595_671; Line: 5. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M595, 692 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
1919 Indian census; Roll: M595_665; Page: 38; Line: 1; Agency: Winnebago. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M595, 692 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree, and George A. Greendeer, People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942 (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011) 195, 197.
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