President George Washington forced St. Clair to resign. The spectacular victory of Blue Jacket and Little Turtle was short-lived however. The new U. President Washington raised a new professional army led by General Anthony Wayne. Blue Jacket Blue Jacket was born around , but it is not known where as there is no record of him until around the s. Blue Jacket Outdoor Drama If you were to visit Xenia, Ohio, you could see an outdoor drama production that shows the Ohio Valley area as it was in the late s, when advancing frontiersmen fought the Shawnee Indians who wanted the land to remain free of ownership.
Can't find it? Let's look for it! Hang on! It may get bumpy Dayton Toledo Youngstown. Help spread the word about Ohio. It is during this period that Blue Jacket probably gained recognition as a talented warrior. As a result, American Indians there lost their rights to hunt on lands south of the Ohio River.
The Shawnee continued to lead the resistance and Blue Jacket rose to prominence. As ordered by President George Washington, St. Van Trees, "Ordinance of Freedom" St. Clair arrived at Fort Harmar and invited Indian sachems to attend a treaty conference there. Clair held treaty conference with Indian sachems and a resultant treaty with those in attendance not the Shawnees or Miamis reaffirmed the provisions of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
In a memorandum to the President dated May 29, , Secretary Henry Knox advised President George Washington: "The Indians relinquish title to land upon the principle of purchase--the British Crown followed this practice. Secretary of War Knox called Kekionga "a nest of villains. Clair headed to Philadelphia. Military Archives contain proof of his participation in the November 4, battle and him having been KIA. Clair led a poorly trained and ill-equipped expedition of regulars, levies, militia, and civilian men, women, and children northwest from Cincinnati toward Kekionga.
And marching southeast toward the approaching expedition, the Miamis were joined by Chief Blue Jacket and his Shawnee warriors , Buckongahelas and his Delawares, Tarhe the Crane and his Wyandot warriors, Potawatomies, Ottawas, and Kickapoos. The two "forces"met on the banks of the Wabash River and the Indians attack St. It was not an "organized" attack in one sense of the word--Indians follow their own leader, i. Regardless, the three hour attack left more than men, women, and children dead along the Wabash and the"victorious" Indians withdrew allowing the white survivors to flee back toward the recently constructed Fort Jefferson, Fort Hamilton, and on to Cincinnati.
Clair escaped. On the morning of June 29th, the Indians attack the supply train led by Major McMahon as they departed Fort Recovery and the battle was on. For two days it continued and then the Indians withdrew. Tecumseh did not attend. A life-size wax sculpture of the two men was made and stood in the Charles Wilson Peale Museum until they were later destroyed in a fire. Somewhere the writer read, or heard, an unconfirmed story that President Washington once bowed as he passed the sculpture.
He was buried there with full military honors. The writer found no mention of Blue Jacket being reported as a white man turned Indian but several accounts do report that the old chief was not very conversant in the English language but always enjoyed a bit of the grape. This would have afforded Blue Jacket a sweeping view of the Detroit as he enjoyed a glass of Autumn Leaves and cogitated his counsel to forty year old Tecumthe. Chief Blue Jacket may have died in the winter of according to an interview Lyman C.
Draper reported having with Captain William Caldwell. This writer speculates, but has no proof positive, that the old chief died in late January of However, the mortal remains of the latter were removed to Canada later and the writer is of the opinion those of Blue Jacket may also have been moved to Sandwich Windsor, Ontario where relatives of his wife, Clear Water Baby or Baubee--a Metis daughter of Jacques Duperon Baby--lived.
This may account for some reports that Blue Jacket was buried in, or near, Sandwich in Ontario. Nancy Stewart, a half breed, given deed to land along the Miami River.
The biographical sketch was initially published in "The Cincinnati Chronicle" in The writer has not found that edition. See Larsh became a Mason at Richmond, Indiana in Pages and offer a commentary by Mrs. According to Mrs. Moore, "Nancy had decidely Indian features and had had small pox. The writer found no grave stones. Swearingen in Washington, D. Neither included a thing about a white man becoming Blue Jacket.
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