THE TREATY OF FORT STANWIX (1769)✍🏻📜📜
admin The Proclamation of 1763 bequeathed, essentially, more power to the British Crown, thus eliminating the spread of white settlers into the Indians lands: how? By expelling non-English white settlers. That…
The Monongy: The Loch Ness Monster of the Monongahela River 👾👺🐙
In the early days, long before the arrival of White Settlers to the Pittsburgh area, there was a considerable amount of discussion among the various Indian tribes about a terrifying…
DANIEL HUGHES: UNSUNG HERO OF THE MOHAWK& AND OHIO COUNTRY&UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 🔗⛓
Daniel Hughes was a man of prominence in Lycoming County during the years of operation of the Underground Railroad; he was half black and half Mohawk, which made him an…
“Nanye-hi” (CHEROKEE SPELLING,”ᎾᏅᏰᎯ”) Nancy Ward: Cherokee Heroine of the Ohio Valley 🪓
This is a remarkable story of courage, persistence, and preservation of the Cherokee people and their customs and integrity, led and supervised by an incredibly brave and compassionate woman, who…
THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF SAWKUNK 🐢🦃
Researching Native Indian villages in the Ohio Country has not been an exclusively easy task; on the contrary, I have found it challenging and ending up with more questions than…
A WALKING HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICAN OHIO COUNTRY (PILOT EPISODE: CHIEF LOGAN”S LAMENT) 🏹
Greetings&welcome to a brand-new series that features the historical narratives, exlots, adventures, and legends of the Native Americans of the Beaver County (PA) and Ohio Country. After careful consideration, rather…
TREATY AT THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT MIAMI 🐢 (1786 ✍📜)
By 1785, hostilities in the Ohio Country between Indians and White Settlers were increasing with unprecedented ferocity. Wars, battles, surprise attacks, scalpings, killings and shootings were becoming a mundane, but…
INDIAN LANDS FOR SALE!
Yes, authentic Indian Lands for listed for sale by newspapers across the country, even here in the Ohio Country! As is it was NO BIG DEAL! I clipped this add…
GREAT PEACE OF MONTREAL: THE GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN HIGHTIDE 🦅🦉🐢
While this treaty was not relevant at the time of its arbitration in the Ohio Country, it would certainly have an effect on the entire landscape thereof! By 1701, after…
THE LEGEND OF INDIAN ROCK (SOUTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVNIA) 🪓
So, many folks, hikers, Indian enthusiasts, etc. have wondered about these mysterious and their mystical interpretation. I will with confidence that these monoliths were NOT carved by Native Americans in…