Waxopįnįšišigᵋt’ehiga
"Bad-Spirit Killer"
Ho-Chunk
Born about in Wisconsin
Son of Unknown Gray Eagle-eye
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Caxšebišjaxojᵋwįga (Gray Eagle-Eye) Decora [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 27
in Mauston, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States
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Waxopįnįšišigᵋt’ehiga was Ho-Chunk.
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Biography
Name
We can easily reconstruct the Hocąk name for Bad Spirit Killer as Waxopįnįšišigᵋt’ehiga, from waxopįnį, "spirit"; šišik, "bad, evil"; t’ehi, "to kill, he kills" (< t’e, "to die" and hi, "to cause, to do"; and -ga, a definite article suffix used in personal names.
Lineage
Spoon Decora stated, "I am the nephew of Big Canoe; and Doc Decorah the medicine man, who lives near me, is my nephew. Doc's father, who was named Bad-Spirit Killer, was my brother-in-law." (Thwaites, 461)
Death
"Bad-Spirit Killer died of smallpox, when [in 1832-33] so many of our people were taken away by that disease. We were at Mauston, then, picking blueberries. Several of our party died." (Thwaites, 461)
Sources
- Spoon Decorah, "The Narrative of Spoon Decorah," in an Interview with Reuben Gold Thwaites, Wisconsin Historical Collections, XIII (1895): 448-462.
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