Monįga Hunts the Earth (abt. 1770)

Descendants

Monįga was Ho-Chunk.

Biography

“Dougherty, who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say, that in the year 1831, he was married to Mary, a half blood Winnebago, who was the daughter of Kenoko, who was a full blooded Winnebago woman, and sister to the principle Chief — his said wife Mary being the Grand daughter of Mo-na-ka, who is known at Washington as the 'Winnebago General'.” (Waggoner, 18a)

“[Whirling Thunder's] daughter married John Dougherty an Indian trader Dougherty’s affidavit made in 1836 stated that she was the daughter of a Winnebago woman named Kenoko and the granddaughter of a Winnebago chieftain known in Washington as the Winnebago General.” (Jipson, 236)

Sources

• Linda M. Waggoner (ed.), “Neither White Men Nor Indians: Affidavits from the Winnebago Mixed-blood Claim Commissions, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, 1838-1839” (Roseville, Minnesota: Park Genealogical Books, 2002). Extracted from Territorial Papers of the United States, Wisconsin, 1836-1848. M236. “Special Files of the Office of Indian Affairs,” 1836-46. “Special File 161” (Roll 41). “Special File 190” (Roll 42). National Archives, Washington D.C., Documents on Microfilm, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Record Group 75).
• Norton William Jipson, Story of the Winnebagoes (Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1923). This is an unpublished typescript.