MONACATOOTHA: WARRIOR&CHIEF OF THE ONEIDA 🪓
admin “Monacatootha: Fearless Indian Chief of Beaver County.” The infancy of the American Indian in Beaver County is both sacred and obscure. Many of its residents claim some form of descendance…
THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE (1796) 🦃🐢🦅
To the white settlers, this treaty was known as the Treaty with the Wyandots but formally titled A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes…
TREATY OF FORT PITT (1778) 📜✍🏻✍🏻
The primary purpose of this treaty was to procure a military alliance between the newly formed United States of America and the Lenape Nation of the Ohio Valley. Prior to…
CHIEF RED JACKET SPEECH 🦃🐢
In closing out Native American Heritage Month, I carefully selected this famous speech by Red Jacket. It is astonishingly accurate even by today’s standards and is one of the most…
THE TREATY OF FORT STANWIX (1769)✍🏻📜📜
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…