Will Wojįną̄žįga Blowsnake (abt. 1873 - 1899)

Born about 1873 in Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Died Dec 1899 at about age 26 in Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin, United States

Will was Ho-Chunk.

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.