WILD WEST STORIES: 03/05/21

Friday, March 5, 2021

CHIEF PONTIAC - Ottawa Chief.

Chief Pontiac, called Obwandiyag by his people, was a great leader of the Ottawa tribe and became famous for organizing Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763–1766). Following the British victory in the French and Indian War, Chief Pontiac organized his and other tribes in the Great Lakes area to rebel against the intrusion on their lands.

Chief Pontiac was assassinated by a Peoria Indian on April 20, 1769. To avenge Pontiac’s death, the Ottawa Indians killed many Peoria Indians.

Siege of Fort Detroit in 1763 by the Ottawa warriors.

Chief Gall – Aggressive Sioux Leader

Chief Gall was one of the most aggressive leaders of the Sioux nation in their last stand for freedom.

When ” Buffalo Bill ” successfully launched his first show, he made every effort to secure both Sitting Bull and Gall for his leading attractions. The military was in complete accord with him in this, for they still had grave suspicions of these two leaders. While Sitting Bull reluctantly agreed, Gall haughtily said: “I am not an animal to be exhibited before the crowd,” and retired to his teepee

Dull Knife – Northern Cheyenne Chief

The life of Dull Knife, the Cheyenne Chief, is a true hero tale. Simple, child-like yet manful, and devoid of selfish aims, or love of gain, he is a pattern for heroes of any race.

He died in 1883 and was buried on high ground near his home.

MANUELITO

died in 1893.

A principal Navajo war chief, Manuelito was born near Bears Ears Peak in southeastern Utah in about 1818 the Navajo gave him the name Hashkeh Naabaah, meaning ″Angry Warrior″.

AMERICAN HORSE.

One of the wittiest and shrewdest of the Sioux chiefs was American Horse, who succeeded to the name and position of an uncle, killed in the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876.

SIOUX WARRIORS.

OSCEOLA .

Born in 1804 - Died on January 30, 1838

Osceola, the most well-known leader of the Seminole Indians, was born in 1804, in a Creek town near Tallassee, present-day Tuskegee, Alabama. His Creek mother, Polly Copinger, was married to Englishman William Powell.

COCHISE : Died on june 8, 1874.

One of the most famous Apache leaders to resist Westward Expansion by white settlers was Cochise of the Chiricahua Apache. Cochise was known to his people as A-da-tli-chi, meaning hardwood, and lived in the area that is now the northern Mexican region of Sonora, as well as New Mexico and Arizona. These lands had long been home to the Apache until the Europeans arrived.

CHIEF VICTORIO

Born on the Black Range of New Mexico around 1825, Victorio was raised as a member of the Chihenne Apache.

The warrior Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists of all time, dies on October 15, 1880, in the Tres Castillos Mountains south of El Paso, Texas.

Known as Bidu-ya or Beduiat to his Apache people, Victorio was a warrior and chief of the Chihenne band of the Chiricahua Apache in what is now New Mexico.

Victorio grew up during a period of intense hostility between the native Apache Native Americans of the southwest and encroaching Mexican and American settlers. Determined to resist the loss of his homeland, Victorio began leading his small band of warriors on a long series of devastating raids against Mexican and American settlers and their communities in the 1850s.

In April 1880, Victorio was said to have led his band in the Alma Massacre, where several settlers’ homes were raided and several people killed. As a result, U.S. Army troops were sent out in force from Fort Bayard, New Mexico, to capture Victorio and his band. The soldiers outpaced Victorio to the water holes in the Sierra Diablo Mountains, and after two unsuccessful attempts to reach water, the Apache retreated into Mexico.

On October 14, 1880, Victorio and his warrios were surprised by hired Mexican sculp hunters who killed Victorio and his warriors. Only women and children survived and were held prisoners in Chihuahua City for the next several years.