Kekionga
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Kekionga (means blackberry patch)Wanda Willis, "Haunted Hoosier Trails: A Guide to Indiana's Famous Folklore Spooky Sites". Guild Press Emmis Publishing, L.P., 2002 p.45. ISBN 1-57860-115-0., also known as KiskakonCharles R. Poinsatte, Fort Wayne During the Canal Era 1828-1855 ([Indianapolis:] Indiana Historical Bureau, 1969), 1. was the capital of the Miami tribe at the confluence of the Saint Joseph, Saint Marys and Maumee rivers on the western edge of the Great Black Swamp. It became the site of several French, British and American forts and trading posts.
The Miami at first benefited from trade with the Europeans. The French under Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes established a trading post and fort, first at the St. Joseph River, and later at Kekionga. Vincennes and the Miami developed a strong and enduring friendship,"Vincennes, Sieur de (Jean Baptiste Bissot)," The Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1990), 28:130.
In 1790, Gen. Josiah Harmar was defeated by a tribal coalition led by Little Turtle, in the Battle of Kekionga. The Miami were gradually forced to give up more and more of their land and eventually lost control of the settlement entirely. The site later became the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
References
- Kekionga!: the worst defeat in the history of the U. S. Army, Wilbur Edel (1997), ISBN 0275958213
Notes
See also
- French colonization of the Americas
- British colonization of the Americas
- History of the United States (1789-1849)
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