Will
Wojįną̄žįga
Blowsnake
Born about in Wisconsin, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Annie Wakąjáskawįga (Blowsnake) Thundercloud, Jasper Blowsnake, Emma Caxšebᵋwiga (Blowsnake) Goodbear, Sam Hocą́gᵋxétega Blowsnake and Stella Mountain Wolf Woman (Blowsnake) Stacy
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 26
in Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin, United States
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Will was Ho-Chunk.
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Biography
Birth
He was the son of Charles Blowsnake and Lucy Goodvillage.
Name
In a photograph by van Schaick, his name is given WoeGinNawGinKah which is for Wojįną̄žįga, "Strikes Standing", from wojį, "to strike" (< wa-, "them"; and hojį́, "to strike, beat [as a drum or person]"); ną̄žį, "to stand"; and -ga, a definite article suffix used in personal names.
His birth order name, as the second son, is Hénaga.
Death
He passed away in Dec 1899 in Wittenberg, Shawano County, Wisconsin. (Probate Rec.)
Sources
- Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987. Wisconsin County, District and Probate Courts. Probate Place: Shawano, Wisconsin. Estate Case Files, Case, No 443-461, 1901-1904. State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin).
- 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) 175, 205.
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