Čap’ósgaga (DeKaury) Decora (abt. 1730 - 1787)

Born about 1730 in Wisconsin, New France

Descendants

Died 1787 at about age 57 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin

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Čap’ósgaga was Ho-Chunk.

Čap’ósgaga (DeKaury) Decora is Notable.

Biography

Name

Chah-Post-Kaw-Kaw is a fairly close rendering of Čap’ósgaga. This is from čap’ó, "breast"; sga, "white"; and -ga, the definite article used in personal names. The name is attested as that of the protagonist in a story about the Fox-Hočąk war of 1730. (Blowsnake-Radin)

Residence

Radin's map (51) shows Čap’ósgaga's village to have been located at present day LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Lyman C. Draper says, "Chah-post-kaw-kaw, or The Buzzard, ... settled with a band of Winnebagoes at LaCrosse about 1787 ..." (Draper, 297 note)

Life

"His two sons were called Big Canoe or One Eyed Decorah, and Wakun-ha-ga or Snake Skin, known as Waukon Decorah." (Jipson, 228)

Frequently omitted from his list of sons is his eldest son Mąwáruga. Draper says that shortly after setting up in LaCrosse in 1787, Čap’ósgaga "was shortly after killed in a drunken row." (Draper, 297 note) It was, in fact, his own son, Mąwáruga, who killed him. Ever after Mąwáruga was shunned by the Winnebago, who considered him to be no better than an animal for having committed such a crime. (Grignon, 287)

Sources

• Jasper Blowsnake and Paul Radin, "A Semi-Historical Account of the War of the Winnebago and the Foxes," Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1914) 62:192-207. Told by Jasper Blowsnake in June, 1908. A version in English only has been published in Paul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990 [1923]) 11-17.

• Paul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1923) 51.

• Lyman C. Draper, note to David McBride, "The Capture of Blackhawk," Wisconsin Historical Collections, V (1868/1907): 293-297, note at 297.

• Norton William Jipson, Story of the Winnebagoes (Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1923) 228-229.

• Augustin Grignon, "Seventy-two Years' Recollections of Wisconsin," Wisconsin Historical Collections, 3 (1857) 197-295.

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• "Indian History of Winneshiek County: 'Decorah Family - GENEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE DECORAH FAMILY', compiled by Charles Philip Hexom (biographies by Dick Barton); A. K. Bailey & Son, Inc.; Decorah, USA; 1913, p. 29-31."