The Life and Times of Little Turtle
First Sagamore of the Wabash
By Harvey Lewis Carter
Published by University of Illinois Press, 1987
Good hardcover, creasing to lower corner of pages as well as the front cover, else a nice copy and reference!
Good hardcover, creasing to lower corner of pages as well as the front cover, else a nice copy and reference!
Description
The Life and Times of Little Turtle presents the first major biography of an unsung yet remarkable Indian leader.
Little Turtle (1747-1812) was the war chief of the Miami Indians at a time when the tribe's homeland stretched from Chicago and Detroit in the north to the Ohio River in the south. Victorious over American armies, he nonetheless was convinced that the Indians could not win without British aid, which never came. Carter shows that Little Turtle, advocating accommodation and peaceful coexistence after the Treaty of Greenville, placed himself squarely between the extremists on both sides but failed to bridge the gap between cultures.
Despite his considerable diplomatic skills, his personal adoption of white men's ways, and the invaluable aid of his white son-in-law, William Wells, Little Turtle could not stem the relentless westward thrust of white civilization. As Carter persuasively argues, the tribe's loss of land and power was due in no small part to an unsympathetic Jeffersonian Indian policy that was at odds with Jeffersonian ideals.
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