nt man; had been in Washington several times on
business connected with his people, and was always shrewd enough to
look out for himself in all his treaties and transactions with the
Government. He stood six feet two inches in his moccasins, was
well-proportioned, and had a remarkably fine face. He had a nickname--
_Que-we-zanc_ (Little Boy)--by which he was familiarly called by his
people.

The Pillagers--_Nah-kand-tway-we-nin-ni-wak_--who live about Leech
Lake (_Kah-sah-gah-squah-g-me-cock_) were opposed to
_Pa-go-nay-gie-shiek_, but he compelled them through fear to recognize
him as Head-Chief. At the time of the "Sioux outbreak" in 1862
"Hole-in-the-day" for a time apparently meditated an alliance with the
Po-ah-nuck (Dakotas) and war upon the whites. The Pillagers and some
other bands urged him strongly to this course, and his supremacy as
head-chief was threatened unless he complied. Messengers from the
Dakotas were undoubtedly received by him, and he, for a time at least,
led the Dakotas to believe that their hereditary enemies, the
Ojibways, would bury the hatchet and join them in a war of
extermination against the whites. "Hole-in-the-day," with a band of
his warriors, appeared opposite Fort Ripley (situated on the west bank
of the Mississippi River between Little Falls and Crow Wing), and
assumed a threatening attitude toward the fort, then garrisoned by
volunteer troops. The soldiers were drawn up on the right bank and
"Hole-in-the-day" and his warriors on the left. A little speech-making
settled the matter for the time being and very soon thereafter a new
treaty was made with "Hole-in-the-day" and his head men, by which
their friendship and allegiance were secured to the whites. It was
claimed by the Pillagers that "Hole-in-the-day" seized the occasion to
profit personally in his negotiations with the agents of the
Government.

In 1867 "Hole-in-the-day" took "another wife." He married Helen
McCarty, a white woman, in Washington, D. C., and took her to his home
at Gull Lake (_Ka-ga-ya-skunc-cock_) literally, _plenty of little
gulls_.

She bore him a son who is known as Joseph H. Woodbury, and now (1891)
resides in the city of Minneapolis. His marriage with a white woman
increased the hatred of the Pillagers, and they shot him from ambush
and killed him near _Ninge-ta-we-de-gua-yonk_--Crow Wing--on the 27th
day of June, 1868.

At the time of his death, "Hole-in-the-day" was only thirty-seven
years old,