Simon Kahquados

Simon Kahquados, born Kakanisaiga, (May 18, 1851 – November 27, 1930) was a leader of the Potawatomi people in Wisconsin, United States, and played a pivotal role in creating the federally recognized Forest County Potawatomi Community.

Biography Simon Kahquados, whose Potawatomi name was Kakanisaiga, was born on May 18, 1851, in Black Earth, a Potawatomi village located in the present-day Town of Carlton, Wisconsin. His father died in 1856, and he was raised by his grandfather near Whitefish Bay, Door County. dividing into small bands and moving to northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Kahquados was in a band that moved into the Upper Peninsula in 1864, where he hunted and trapped. In 1870, his family bought a homestead in Bark River, Michigan, where he associated with the Hannahville Methodist Indian Mission and worked as a logger in the timber industry.