Francis Assikinack
19th-century Ojibwe historian
About Francis Assikinack
Lived 1824 – 1863 (aged 38–39).
Francis Assikinack (c. 18241863) was a 19th-century Ojibwe historian. Assikinack was born on Manitoulin Island. He was raised learning only Ojibwe and did not learn English until after enrolling at Upper Canada College in 1840. His father Jean-Baptiste Assiginack was a prominent leader of the Ojibwe.
Assikinack had tried to get approval to study medicine but the government did not support him in this course. Assikinack worked for the Canadian Indian department. For a time he taught school at Wikwemikong.
He wrote three essays on the customs and culture of the Ojibwe.
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19th-century Ojibwe historian
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Francis Assikinack was born in 1824.
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Francis Assikinack died in 1863.
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