 He gained a strategic alliance through marriage to "Equawasay", the daughter of the head of the White Crane clan; men from this clan were the hereditary chiefs of the Lake Superior Ojibwe.Cadotte's trading post at La Pointe on Madeline Island was a critical center for the trade between the Lake Superior band and the British and United States trading companies.Cadotte was born July 22, 1764, as the second son to a French father and an Anishinaabe mother in present-day Sault Ste.