Shingwaukonse or Shingwauk (Fiero spelling: Zhingwaak; "Pine") (1773 - 1854) was an Anishnaabe chief, who was instrumental in the establishment of the Garden River First Nation

Garden River First Nation

Garden River First Nation, also known as Ketegaunseebee , is an Ojibwa band located at Garden River 14 near Sault Ste. Marie....

 near Sault Ste. Marie

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...

, Ontario

Ontario

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 as a signatory to the Robinson Huron Treaty

Robinson Treaty

Robinson Treaty may refer to one of three treaties signed between the Ojibwa chiefs and The Crown.-Lake Superior:The Robinson Treaty for the Lake Superior region, commonly called Robinson Superior Treaty, was entered into agreement on September 7, 1850, at Sault Ste...

 of 1850.

Shingwauk also strongly advocated education to help the Anishnaabe people preserve their language and culture. In 1832, he snowshoe

Snowshoe

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over the snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person over a larger area so that the person's foot does not sink completely into the snow, a quality called "flotation"....

d all the way from Sault Ste. Marie to York

York, Upper Canada

York was the name of Old Toronto between 1793 and 1834. It was the second capital of Upper Canada.- History :The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, with a new 'Fort York' on the site of the last French 'Fort Toronto'...

 to ask Governor John Colborne

John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

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 to provide a teacher for his people. He also advocated the creation of a "Teaching Wigwam Lodge" for the Anishnaabe people, a vision which culminated in the creation of Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig is a proposed Anishinaabe university to be run in conjunction with a newly-independent Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie and the Shingwauk Education Trust. In 2006, Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig and Algoma University signed a covenant that promised to assist each...

 in 2008.

Shingwauk had two sons, Augustine and Buhgwujjenene (Fiero spelling: Bagwajinini; "Wildman"), who both served as successive hereditary chiefs of Garden River after Shingwauk's death. A follower of traditional Anishnaabe religion

Midewiwin

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 for most of his life, Shingwauk converted to Anglicanism

Anglican Church of Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada is the Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French name is l'Église Anglicane du Canada. The ACC is the third largest church in Canada after the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada, consisting of 800,000 registered members...

a few years before his death.