#americanindianhistory β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #americanindianhistory, aggregated by home.social.
-
𧡠4/4
For the First Peoples who fought against the US, the war was a disaster. Tragically, Tecumseh's dream of a Pan-Indian land that would halt future encroachments by the USA was annihilated at the battles of the Thames and Horseshoe Bend.
At the conclusion of the war, the British, not for the first time in their dealings with Indians vis-Γ -vis the USA, showed themselves readier to get back to business with the Americans than to secure the position of their erstwhile allies.
How I wish that a contemporary portrait of Tecumseh had survived!
Image: 1846 N.Currier print shows Col. R.M. Johnson using a pistol to kill Tecumseh during the War of 1812, at the battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada. -- Library of Congress - Public Domain.
#WarOf1812 #FirstNationsHistory #AmericanIndianHistory #Tecumseh
-
Oche-Finceco, also known as Charles Cornells, was a Creek chief and one of the signatories of the 1826 Treaty of Washington.
in his 2001 "The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815", Amos Wright records that Cornells, after receiving $10,000 from the federal government, fell into bad company and lost everything. He then hanged himself.The Georgia governor worked with expansionists to break the treaty, effectively forcing the Creek Nation out of the state in 1827.
#USHistory #CreekHistory #GeorgiaHistory #AmericanIndianHistory
