Career
He served as the principal chief about the middle of the 19th century. He was noted chiefly as an orator, and as the father of Ah-shah-way-gee-she-go-qua, the so-called "Chippewa Princess". Nay-naw-ong-gay-be is described as having been of "less than medium height and size," and as having "intelligent features."
Chief Nenaa"angebi, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, was of the Nibiinaabe-doodem (Merman Clan).
He was a twin son of Chief Ozaawindib, sometimes recorded as being a Lac Courte Oreilles Band.
Nenaa"angebi"s twin brother —whom Ozaawindib gave away to the community of Snake River sub-band of the Biitan-akiing-enabijig ("Border-sitters") who were equally Ojibwa as they were Dakota in order to make peace with them and so that they would have a Chief — became Chief Shagobay/Shák"pí. Chief Nenaa"angebi"s wife was Niigi"o (recorded as "Niguio").
He was a treaty signatory to the 1842 and 1854 Treaties of Louisiana Pointe. His Band was consolidated with Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians after the 1854 Treaty of Louisiana Pointe.
Before he could see the promises of the 1854 Treaty fulfilled, he died in 1855.
Chief Nenaa"angebi was buried near the high hill at Prairie Farm and there is a Wisconsin Historical Society marker nearby. "Wabashish", the eldest son, succeeded his father as Chief of the Prairie Rice Lake community of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band. However, shortly afterwards, Shák"pí lead an ambush to which Chief Nenaa"angebi’s wife was seriously injured, and later died.
Niigi"o was buried near the west bank of the Red Cedar River on the north end of Rice Lake, Wisconsin within a few feet of the edge of Wisconsin Highway 48.
— Nay-naw-ong-gay-be, late summer of 1855, in reference to Treaty of Louisiana Pointe.
