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Little Turtle ( Miami-Illinois: Mihšihkinaahkwa) ( c. 1747 — July 14, 1812) was a Sagamore (chief) of the Miami people, who became one of the most famous Native American military leaders. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in the Northwest Territory ," [3] although he later signed several treaties ...
Fossil history Diagram of the origins of the turtle body plan through the Triassic: isolated bony plates evolved to form a complete shell, in a sequence involving Pappochelys, Eorhynchochelys, Odontochelys, and Proganochelys. Zoologists have sought to explain the evolutionary origin of the turtles, and in particular of their unique shells.
40 wounded. 656 killed or captured. 279 wounded. St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, [3] was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the ...
Turtle Island is a name for Earth [1] or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation story common to several Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America. [2]
The Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794) was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Northwestern Confederacy and their British allies, against the nascent United States for control of the Northwest Territory. The battle took place amid trees toppled by a tornado near the ...
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy. The United States Army considers it the first of the American Indian Wars.
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
The Lenape ( English: / ləˈnɑːpi /, /- peɪ /, / ˈlɛnəpi /; [7] [8] Lenape languages: [lənaːpe] [9] ), also called the Lenni Lenape [10] and Delaware people, [11] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. [4] The Lenape's historical territory includes present-day northeastern ...