Wabaunsee (c. 1780-c. 1840) was renowned Potawatomi war chief. 
His people inhabited an area on the Kankakee River in Illinois, forty 
miles southwest of Lake Michigan. He participated in the Greenville 
Council in July 1814, in which he and several other tribes from the 
western frontier agreed  to ally themselves with the United States 
against Britain. In 1816, he signed the Treaty of Wabash, in Indiana, 
selling tribal lands to the stabbed, and Indian Agent Thomas Tipton 
saved his life. In 1835, after convincing his tribe that they could not 
survive while surrounded on all sides by Americans, Wabaunsee 
went to Washington D.C., and signed a treaty. The treaty gave away 
the remainder of the Potawatomi ancestral lands to the government 
in exchange for lands westward, near Council Bluffs on the Missouri 
River.