Wakąjága (DeKaury) Decora (abt. 1756)

Born about 1756 in Wisconsin Territory

Ancestors

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Biography

Wakąjága was Ho-Chunk.

Name

The name Wau-Kon-Ga-Ka is a slight corruption of Wakąjága, which means, "Thunderbird." Wakąjága is obviously a Thunderbird Clan name.

Birth

Flight of Geese was a young woman whom Spoon Decora married late in life. Most of his children were the offspring of Spoon's unknown prior wife or wives.

Sources

• WikiTree profile DeKaury-6 created through the import of The Sammons Family Tree.ged on Jun 9, 2011 by Steve Sammons.

• Source: S2852711167 Repository: #R2852704208 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. [http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5111977&pid=7731

• Repository: R2852704208 [1]

• "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."