Little Turtle

This lithograph by Little Turtle is based on a lost portrait of Gilbert Stuart , destroyed in a fire in Washington, DC by the British in 1814 .

Little Turtle (* 1752 on the Eel River in northern Indiana ; † 14. July 1812 in Fort Wayne , Indiana) was a chief of the Miami - Indians and is considered one of the most important Indian chiefs in North America.

Life

Little Turtle, so named after its real name Michikinikwa or Me-She-Kin-No-Qua , which translates as little turtle , was one of the leading leaders of a confederation of Indian tribes that led to US Generals Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair Brought heavy defeats in 1790 and 1791. St. Clair's losses in the Battle of the Wabash River , which took place on November 4, 1791, were the heaviest that any US force had ever suffered fighting against Indians.

After the Indian alliance was defeated by General Anthony Wayne in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), Little Turtle gave up its fight against the United States.

Tired of battle and corrupted, Little Turtle became a compliant tool of the United States and its agents (William Wells) and favored the policy of selling land to the United States, which also brought him into severe opposition to the traditionalists under Tecumseh .

Individual evidence

Chief Little Turtle

1. ↑ Harvey Lewis Carter: The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash. University of Illinois Press, 1987, ISBN 0-252-01318-2 , pp. 62 f.
2. ↑ Little Turtle . United States Army Military History Institute. September 15, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2016. 

Web links

• Little Turtle at Find-a-Grave (English)