Wawatam was an 18th-century Odawa chief who lived in the northern region of present-day Michigan's Lower Peninsula in an area along the Lake Michigan shoreline known by the Odawa as Waganawkezee.
Ojibwa Chief Wawatam statue in Mackinaw City.
The Odawa are an Indigenous North American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Their terr
Wawatam
…Wawatam (little goose) (fl. 1762 – 1764) was an 18th-century Odawa chief who lived in the northern region of present-day Michigan's Lower Peninsula in an area along the Lake Michigan shoreline known by the Odawa as…
Mid-18th century sketch of an Odawa family by British soldier George Townshend
Odawa warrior with gunstock war club
Odawa Chief Pontiac speaking at a council on April 27, 1763, 19th-century engraving.