Anton Troyer

People were drawn to him.

One day, after drinking a little too much whiskey with some fur traders, he fell off his wagon in a stupor and was crushed.

It seemed like the end of his great vision for the Ojibwe people.

But as he lay dying, he summoned his son.

His 19-year-old son took his name and became hole-in-the-day the younger.

He vowed to make his father's dream come true and promised to usher in a new era of one Ojibwe nation.

Hall in the Day was quite brash.

He sometimes inflamed other Ojibwe leaders when he would claim to be chief of them all or chief of an entire region that included multiple villages, many of which had their own chiefs.

His father had just passed away and there might have been 200 other Ojibwe leaders from around the region there.

And he said he came a day late and then he said, stop what you're doing.

Now, if I say sell, we sell.

And if I say no, we don't.

which was ridiculous and probably offensive, but really impressed the Americans.

He was one of the most effective and knowledgeable Ojibwe leaders of his time.

He had traveled to Washington, D.C.

many times.

He was not a passive leader just waiting to see what would happen to the people.

Certainly it is true that Hole in the Day had very strong and powerful friends and very strong and powerful enemies.

People tended to either love him or hate him.

The U.S.