Johnston, Charlotte (McMurray)

Nation(ality): Anishinaabe mixed ancestry
Community: Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
Occupation(s): interpreter

gender: woman
residences: Sault Ste Marie
alternative: O-gen-a bug-o-quay
married: McMurray

Timeline


Birth: 1806

Born to John Johnston and Oshaw-guscody-way-way (Susan) Anishinaabe, daughter of Waub-o-jeeg, at Bowating (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

Source(s):

Brazer, Marjorie Cahn. Harps Upon the Willows: The Johnson Family of the Old Northwest, ed the Historical Society of Michigan. Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan, 1993; Konkle, Maureen. What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845. University of North Carolina Press, 2024. 



Death: 1871

Source(s):

Brazer, Marjorie Cahn. Harps Upon the Willows: The Johnson Family of the Old Northwest, ed the Historical Society of Michigan. Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan, 1993; Konkle, Maureen. What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.