Which northern United States/southern Canada tribe was led by Jean-Baqtiste Assiginack in the early 19th century?
Jean-Baptiste Assiginack Jean-Baptiste Assiginack (1768 - 3 November 1866) was an Ottawa leader in the early 19th-century. He was also known as 'Blackbird'.
Jack Fiddler Jack Fiddler, also known as Zhauwuno-geezhigo-gaubow (from the Oji-Cree: "Zhaawano-giizhigo-gaabaw" meaning "He who stands in the southern sky") and as Maisaninnine or Mesnawetheno (in Swampy Cree meaning "Stylish man") (c. 1839-September 30, 1907) was an "ogimaa" (chief and shaman) of the Sucker doodem among the Anishinaabe in what is now northwestern Ontario. His arrest in 1906 for the alleged murder of a wendigo and his suicide before trial marked the beginning of the imposition of Canadian law on the Sucker People. Until then, Fiddler's people had been among the last aboriginal peoples living in North America completely under their own law and custom.