Eldest of four sons born to E-bangishimog (the West Wind, also Ae-pungishmook) by Wiininwaa (the human-with-spirit-attributes daughter of Nokomis the "first breast feeder"). The name Maudjee-kawiss / Maajiigawiz means "first son" — a structural-position name in the Anishinaabe naming tradition (the feminine parallel Maudjee-quawiss is given to first-born daughters). Excelled in the canonical Anishinaabe traditional-masculine-pursuits triad of running, swimming, and hunting; favored son of his father E-bangishimog. Inspired the Anishinaabe to write their history on birchbark scrolls, draw petroglyphs on rocks, and to tell the migration story each time they meet in Mdewiwin (Midewiwin) Grand Medicine Society ceremonies — the historical-record-keeping and oral-history-transmission faculty is structurally his in the four-brother set. As the elder brother, embodies strength and leadership; the taunting-rivalry-and-tests-of-courage with his brother Wabosso/Chibiabos shaped that brother toward his eventual underworld-ruler role. Per Schoolcraft, Algic Researches (1839); Basil Johnston, The Manitous (1995); the continuing Mdewiwin tradition.