Note 42 — The Sea-Gull.[18]
Reading edition
Ogema, Chief,—Oge-má-kwá—female Chief. Among the Algónkin tribes women are sometimes made chiefs. Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwá of a band of Ottawas. See John Tanner's Narrative, p. 36.