Hole in the Day

Hole in the Day (or Bagwunagijik; c. 1827 Minnesota - 29 June 1868 Crow Wing, Minnesota) was a chief of the Chippewa people.

Biography

He succeeded his father, also named Hole in the Day, as head chief of the Chippewas in 1846. Like his father, the younger Hole in the Day led his tribe against the Sioux. He married an Irishwoman, and became one of the wealthiest men in Minnesota, his possessions being valued at about $2,000,000. At the beginning of the last Indian war in Minnesota in 1862, it was his influence that restrained the Chippewas from joining the Sioux in their assaults on the European settlers.

He was assassinated by Indians. He was buried in Little Falls, Minnesota. His body was subsequently removed by his relatives.

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Hole-in-the-Day". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. 
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Little Falls, a city and the county-seat of Morrison county, Minnesota, U.S.A.". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.