Nebenegwune
{{Short description|Chief of the Temagami First Nation in Ontario, Canada, circa 1850}}
Peter Nebenegwune, commonly known as Nebenegwune, was the head chief (or ogima), of the Temagami First Nation in Ontario, Canada.{{Cite web |last1=Hodgins |first1=Bruce W. |author-link1=Bruce Hodgins |last2=Morrison |first2=James |date=1998 |title=Biography – Tonené, Ignace |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tonene_ignace_14E.html |access-date=26 March 2022 |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |publisher=University of Toronto, Université Laval |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517004421/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tonene_ignace_14E.html |url-status=live }}
Leadership
In the 1850s, Nebenegwune was the chief of the Temagami First Nation.Kent McNeil (1992) [https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1777&context=scholarly_works The High Cost of Accepting Benefits from the Crown: A Comment on the Temagami Indian Land Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526233508/https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1777&context=scholarly_works|date=2023-05-26}} Canadian Native Law Reporter. Volume 1992, Number 1 (1992), p. 40-69. At the time, the nation was loosely organised and Nebenegwune and his family were informally perceived as the leader.Toby Morantz, [https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/679/579/1753 The Judiciary as Anthropologists: New Insights into Social Organization: The Teme-Augama Anishnaby Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526233508/https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/679/579/1753 |date=2023-05-26 }}. McGill University
As the Robinson-Huron Treaty was being negotiated in 1850, Nebenegwune did not sign the treaty, as his band was one of three that were represented by Chief Tawgaiwene who signed on behalf of the three nations, including the Temagami band. Nebenegwune did tend to travel to collect treaty payments on behalf of his band, although he did not do so in 1850 and 1856, possibly due to the long distance and small payment.
Nebenegwune leadership was superseded by Kekek.[https://albinger.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/attorney-general-for-ontario-v.-bear-island-foundation-et-al.-ontario-supreme-court-steele-j.-december-11-1984-.pdf ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ONTARIO V. BEAR ISLAND FOUNDATION ET AL.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526233507/https://albinger.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/attorney-general-for-ontario-v.-bear-island-foundation-et-al.-ontario-supreme-court-steele-j.-december-11-1984-.pdf |date=2023-05-26 }} Ontario Supreme Court, Steele J., December 11, 1984
Family life
Nebenegwune had both brothers and sisters. His children include Angèle, who married Ignace Tonené in 1860 and died in childbirth in 1871.