In this episode we give the background on how the native peoples of the American Continent dealt with the Euro-Americans during the first decade of the 19th Century. New leaders will rise. John Norton, a Scottish-Cherokee who became a Mohawk and Tecumseh a Shawnee leader who had a vision to unite all tribes together to save their people from extinction.
Sources:
The Journal of Major John Norton, 1816
The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict by Donald R Hickey
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