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Little Turtle. Title Sagamore of the Miami. Date of Birth - Death 1752 - 1812. Born in 1752, Little Turtle grew up in Miami villages along the Eel River near the town of Kekionga, modern Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Miamis established prominence through the matrilineal line.
Little Turtle was a distinguished war chief of the Miami tribe of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region in the late eighteenth century. He was one of the most successful woodland military commanders of his time and led an intertribal force to victory against two American frontier armies in 1790 and 1791.
(1752–1812). A chief of the Miami people, Little Turtle led Native American resistance to white settlement in the Ohio River valley. He achieved fame with two crushing defeats of U.S. forces in the early 1790s. Little Turtle was born near Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 1752. He was the son of the Miami chief Acquenacke and a Mohican mother. His ...
Jul 15, 2019 · Treaty of Greenville. Wayne’s victory over the Western Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers ended the Northwest Indian War, also called Little Turtle’s War. Nearly a year later, Potawatomi leaders, including Chief Topinabee, signed the Treaty of Greenville on Aug. 3, 1795.
Apr 19, 2016 · Summary: Little Turtle aka Michikinikwa (c1747 - 1812) was a famous war chief of the Miami Native Indian tribe of the Great Lakes region. Chief Little Turtle successfully led in raids on settlers in the Northwest Territory and is famous for his victory known as La Balme's Defeat and the 1791 Battle of the Wabash.
July 14, 1812. Michikinikwa or Little Turtle was born in 1752 near Fort Wayne in Little Turtle Village. As a young warrior, he participated in defense of his village in 1780. He later led a small confederation of Native American tribes in defeating federal army forces in 1790 and 1791.
Little Turtle was the son of the Miami chief Acquenacke and a Mahican mother. His grandfather, Osandiah, was chief at the time of the Battle of the Johnston farm (as it is now called) in 1763. When the tribe ceded their last Indiana reservation in 1838 to the Government, they gave Me-Shin-Go-Me-Sia (Michikinikwa) ten sections of land in Grant ...
