this is the only way that I can be killed." The Wenebagoes were
terribly frightened as they thought that so soon as any one would touch
him he would kill every Wenebago. So they held a council to determine
what they should do. But the majority were in favor of performing this
dreadful act, as Kaw-be-naw ordered, for he desired to die. When they
came back, Kaw-be-naw persisted that they should begin, and assured
them that he would never resist. At last, one of the bravest Wenebagoes
went up to him and cut a piece of his flesh. Kaw-be-naw never stirred
but simply smiled and said, "That is the way you must do. What are you
afraid of? Come all ye who have sharp knives." Pretty soon they were
all around him taking his flesh piece after piece. When it was all done
he said, "It is finished; now I shall surely die. But as recompense for
my flesh and life a great battle will be made against you by my
successor, and as many of your best young men shall fall in this battle
as pieces have been cut from my flesh." At the end of this sentence, he
fell backwards and died. Thus ended the career of the great Kaw-be-naw,
the Ottawa warrior and prophet.

"Shaw-ko-we-sy" was the successor of Kaw-be-naw and was almost equal in
power to his predecessor. It is related that in the following year, he
went to the Wenebago country with his numerous warriors and killed many
Wenebagoes, as many as Kaw-be-naw predicted, and returned late in the
fall to their Island with many of the Wenebagoes' scalps. While they
were having jubilees, festivities, and war dances over these scalps of
the Wenebagoes, in the dead of winter, the tribe of Michilimacki-
nawgoes, the remnant race of Indians who resided at the Island now
called Mackinac, whose fate has been given in a previous chapter, were
destroyed. This is the time, according to the Ottawa traditions, that
the Iroquois of New York came upon this race of people and almost
entirely annihilated them, and the Ottawas and Chippewas called this