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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (also spelled with various transliterations as Mashipinashiwish, Me-chee-pee-nai-she-insh, Mash-i-pi-wish , Mitch-e-pe-nain-she-wish, or Mat-che-pee-na-che-wish) is the name of a chief of a Potawatomi Indian group. He signed the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 as a Chippewa chief with the english name of Bad Bird (the Chippewa were closely allied with the Potawatomi and Ottawa).

The Treaty of Chicago , which he signed on August 29, 1821 as an Ottawa, reserved a three mile square tract for a village at the head of the Kalamazoo River (spelled then as Kekalamazoo).

The Treaty with the Potawatomi , signed September 19, 1827, ceded the tract reserved for the village to the U.S. He did not sign the 1828 Treaty with the Potawatomi , which ceded additional land in southwest Michigan, although he did sign the 1832 Treaty with the Potawatomi , which also ceded additional land in the area.

The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (formerly known as the Gun Lake tribe), based in Dorr, Michigan in Allegan County, take their name from this chief.



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