SHINGAS: HERO/OUTLAW OF THE OHIO COUNTRY 🦃
admin “WE HAVE GREAT REASON TO BELIEVE YOU INTEND TO DRIVE US AWAY. WHY DO YOU COME TO FIGHT IN THE LAND GOD HAS GIVEN US? WHY DON’T YOU FIGHT IN…
November 2025
Letter by George Washington to the Seneca Chiefs, 29 December 1790 🪓🌽
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery. —Ben Harper A sad and powerful example of how broken promises and dismantled treaties commenced…
THE CAPTURE&LEGEND OF JOHN CARPENTER 🪓
While there are many tales of capture and killings all along the areas of the Ohio Valley, few are remembered or even recorded. However, the ones that do survive arrange…
TREATY OF FORT HARMAR (1789): The Reversal of “Fortune” Treaty 📜
The Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789) was a treaty made between the United States and the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwa Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape, all Indigenous nations with territorial claims…
THE CINCINNATI TABLET 📜🐢
Measuring approximately 5 inches in length, 3 inches in width, and 0.5 inches thick, the Cincinnati Tablet is made from a very fine-grained sandstone and is undoubtedly the most iconic…
Fort Ancient tools found in Maysville, Kentucky
Many of these primitive tools belonged to various tribes of the Algonquian peoples who primarily inhabited West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. They are most likely descents of the…