the elder Bayaaswaa, a small part of the war party under the leadership of Waa-miigisagoo founded an Ojibwe village at Fond du Lac. The Tragedy of the Siskiwit was a major event in the Ojibwe penetration of mainland Wisconsin. This and other conflicts between the two tribes would not end until the early 18th century, when the French supported their Native allies in two wars of extermination with the Meskwaki that drove them out of northern Wisconsin and decimated their numbers to the point where they had to seek refuge with the Sauk Nation. Accounts Knowledge of the event comes from the oral history of the Red Cliff and Bad River Ojibwe bands, and two written accounts from the 1850s. William Whipple Warren describes the tragedy in his 1851 History of the Ojibway People. In an 1859 account by German adventurer Johann Georg Kohl the author describes having the story related to him by a descendant of the men involved through the reading of birch bark scrolls. A historical marker in Cornucopia, Wisconsin commemorates the tragedy. Notes See also Battle of the Brule Battle of Mole Lake External links Bayfield County Historical Markers Rhodes Offshore 40' Sloop References Kohl, Johann G. Kichi-Gami: life among the Lake Superior Ojibway 1859. Warren, William W. History of the Ojibway People 1851. Ojibwe in the United States Anishinaabe culture Pre-Columbian warfare Pre-statehood history of Wisconsin Siskiwit Siskiwit