John Baptist Perrote
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John Baptist Perrote | |
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.jpg) Undated photo of Perrote wearing traditional clothing | |
| Born | c. 1840 Near Lake Winnebago |
| Died | 1920 |
| Other names | Sabatis |
John Baptist Perrote, or Sabatis, was a Menominee tribal court judge and religious leader.
Perrote was born around 1840 near Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.[1] His parents came from a Menominee village called Wasûske'’sino near Chilton.[2] He was descended from Nicolas Perrot, a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader.[3]
Perrote lived in the Fond du Lac area until the Menominee were removed to the Menominee Indian Reservation.[4] Perrote was a grandmaster of the Medicine Dance and a leader of the Dream Dance, as well as a judge of the Menominee tribal court. In the early 20th century he developed a close relationship with Alanson B. Skinner, an anthropologist who studied the Menominee in depth. Perrote became a key source of information in Skinner's studies of Menominee culture.[1]
Perrote died of illness on July 10th, 1920 on the Menominee reservation and was buried with the honors of a Medicine Dance grandmaster, Dream Dance leader, and federal judge.[5] The town of Perote, which was later abandoned, was named after him.[6]