John Baptist Perrote, or Sabatis, was a Menominee tribal court judge and religious leader.
Perrote was born around 1840 near Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. His parents came from a Menominee village called near Chilton. He was descended from Nicolas Perrot, a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader.
Perrote lived in the Fond du Lac area until the Menominee were removed to the Menominee Indian Reservation. 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.
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. The town of Perote, which was later abandoned, was named after him.
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