Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Pierre Bonga (Ojibwe: Makadewiiyas, \"Black-skinned\"; recorded as \"Mukdaweos\") (b.c. 1770s) was a black (African-American) trapper and interpreter for the North West Company, based in Canada near Mackinac Island. He later worked for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, primarily along the Red River of the North and near Lake Superior in present-day Wisconsin and Minnesota.Like fellow trappers of European descent, he married an Ojibwe woman, as he was operating in the territory of her people. Their mixed-race children were raised in the Ojibwe culture. Two of their sons followed their father into the fur trade, and established reputations as interpreters and guides."@en }
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- Pierre_Bonga abstract "Pierre Bonga (Ojibwe: Makadewiiyas, \"Black-skinned\"; recorded as \"Mukdaweos\") (b.c. 1770s) was a black (African-American) trapper and interpreter for the North West Company, based in Canada near Mackinac Island. He later worked for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, primarily along the Red River of the North and near Lake Superior in present-day Wisconsin and Minnesota.Like fellow trappers of European descent, he married an Ojibwe woman, as he was operating in the territory of her people. Their mixed-race children were raised in the Ojibwe culture. Two of their sons followed their father into the fur trade, and established reputations as interpreters and guides.".