Beautifying Bird
Nenaa'angebi , known in English as Beautifying Bird or Dressing Bird, was a principal chief of the Prairie Rice Lake Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, originally located near Rice Lake, Wisconsin. He served as the principal chief about the middle of the 19th century.
He was noted chiefly as an orator, and as the father of Aazhawigiizhigokwe, who was the only Ojibwe woman ever to earn full ogichidaakwe status.
The Wisconsin Historical Society claims that Nay-naw-ong-gay-be is described as having been of "less than medium height and size," and having "intelligent features."
Family
Chief Nenaa'angebi was of the Nibiinaabe-doodem, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. He was a twin son of Chief Ozaawindib, sometimes recorded as being of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band. Ozaawindib gave away the twin brother of Nenaa'angebi to the community of the Snake River sub-band of the Biitan-akiing-enabijig, an Ojibwa-Dakota group, in order to make peace with them and to provide them with a hereditary chief. That son became known as Chief Shagobay/''Zhaagobe.Chief Nenaa'angebi
Life
Chief Nenaa'angebi was a treaty signatory to the 1842 and 1854 Treaties of La Pointe. His Band was consolidated with Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians after the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe and assigned land to a common reservation. Before he could see the promises of the 1854 Treaty fulfilled, he died in 1855.Chief Nenaa'angebi was buried near the high hill at Prairie Farm. The Wisconsin Historical Society installed a historic marker nearby to memorialize this site. The Society also honored him with a portrait of Chief Nenaa'angebi in its library in Madison, Wisconsin, according to a 1933 letter from the Society to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Bracklin.