Career
The Otoe was a Great Plains tribe, closely related to the Ioway and Missouria. Shaumonekusse was described as a witty and sociable person, and "a daring, active, and successful warrior. We are not aware of his having any hereditary claims to the chieftainship of his tribe, to which he has risen gradually by his own merits.
He is a person of deep penetration, and is capable of acting with much duplicity on any occasion when he may consider it politic to conceal his real views."
Shaumonekusse traveled with an Indian delegation to Washington, District of Columbia in 1821 to meet with high-ranking officials, including President James Monroe.
He had five wives, and took Eagle of Delight with him to the capital. They both had their portraits painted in Washington, District of Columbia on that trip by Charles Bird King.
