Ozhaguscodaywayquay

Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Ozhaawashkodewekwe: "Woman of the Green Glade"), also called Neengay (Ninge: "My mother") or Susan Johnston, was an important figure in the later Great Lakes fur trade. She was born into an Ojibwe family near La Pointe during the 18th Century. Her father was the famous war chief Waubojeeg. She married the Scotch-Irish fur trader John Johnston and settled near Sault Ste. Marie where the couple was influential with trade and relations between the Ojibwe and whites in the area. Her daughter Jane Johnston married the noted ethnographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Ozhaguscodaywayquay is the subject of the book Woman of the Green Glade: The Story of an Ojibway Woman on the Great Lakes Frontier by Virginia Soetebier.

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• Introduction to Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, including some information on her mother Ozhaguscodaywayquay