Search for GOM has taken me to the University of Ottawa

There is little written about GOM.  Carver and Kinzie are the only first-hand accounts in the literature.  David Smith wrote about her in his book Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe.  He also wrote several articles in the Winnebago Indian News over the past decade about GOM and Ho-Chunk History.  The Winnebago Indian News (WIN) is the tribal newspaper from Winnebago, Nebraska.  He described in great detail the events that surrounded the Mesquaki  War of the 1730s' and Governor Beauharnois of New France.  Smith details GOM acting as a peace chief, while married to Joseph Descaris and a mother of two sons and a daughter, during the Meskquaki War.

My continued search of GOM acting in the capacity of a Chieftess has brought me to Canada.  I have 74 sources to examine regarding Governor Beauharnois and the Puants.  Puant is what the French called the Ho-Chunk.  It means 'stinkard'.  Not very friendly, but that is what they called us.  The marshes where we lived attributed to the name Puant.  It will be daunting to go through 74 sources as they are in French.  I can get the gist of the meaning of the letters that Beauharnois exchanged between he and his various commanders at a fort near Lake Pepin in which he describes the interaction between the various tribes.  The fort in Lake Pepin is one of the forts that Smith describes in some detail.  It would be nice if he listed his sources.  He doesn't exactly say  oral tradition, but I think that is what he is drawing from as well as the documentation in the Wisconsin Historical Society and beyond.

I also received some help from the WHS archive director again.  He gave me several links to consider, through he thinks I have exhausted the sources about GOM housed at the WHS.  Possibly.  At any rate, he said that there were two people that mined info regarding "colonial"history in Wisconsin/US.  Wow, the word colonial shook up my brain.  Here I am deep in the Fur Trade and Ho-Chunk History and I completely forgot that the time period from 1700 to 1800, is called the colonial period (by non-natives).  It was a good place to be.