I am chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe. Many historians have discredited me with their accounts of my involvement in the resistance movement against the British so I am here to set some things straight. I was born in 1720 in an Ottawa tribe near the Maumee river near the Mississippi river. By 1755, I had become chief and many of my people looked up to me to lead them through the resistance of the British Colonies. I allied with the French Colonies and aided them to many victorious. Even though my French allies I were not victorious in the French and Indian War, I was determined not to assimilate to the cultural desires the British proposed for Indians nor was I going to let the British deny my people of trading resources and fixing our supply
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You see as well as I that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done from our brothers, the French....Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer. Nothing prevents us; they are few in numbers, and we can accomplish it. I believed that an attack on Fort Detroit would prove most beneficial. Along with about 50 other Indian tribesmen, we scouted the fort and properly planned out our attack. On May 7, 1763 myself and 300 men attempted our sneak attack on Fort Detroit but apparently British commander Henry Gladwin ad been informed because he had over 100 men armed and ready for our arrival. We retreated but did not give up. Two days later we attacked Fort Detroit. Joined by 900 tribesmen and over 12 different tribes, our actions quickly spread out to other tribes and encouraged their involvement. This was the beginning of what is know today as the Pontiac War, suitably named. Our efforts were not victorious is seizing the fort, but were did successfully defeat a British retreat at the Battle of Bloody Run in July 1763, The French of course, were unharmed. Eventually we retracted our efforts and I returned to the native land of my family. Unsatisfied with the outcome at Fort Detroit, my organized attacks against the British …show more content…
A common misconception is that I was chief of all the Sioux tribes but that was not the case as the tribe had several subsections each with their own prominent leader and chief in place. Like many other indian tribes at the time, my focal point was retaining native indian land and driving out the presence of US military forces on our land. Several small raids and attacks on US military forces between 1866 and 1868 are described today the Red Cloud War. One of the most influential Indian attack on US forces was in 1866 and is referred today by the white man as Ferterman Massacre. Our forces of over 2,000 Sioux tribesmen defeated the US forces of barely 80 soldiers and resulted in the signing of the peace Treaty of Fort Laramie. The treaty assigned us to land know as the Great Sioux Reservation. The treaty also included that the US government would supply us food, supplies and weekly rations. Most of the time our supplies were either late or non existent and the food was spoiled. The US government was not keeping up their terms of the treaty. Also miners were coming onto our land in search of rumored gold in the area. These actions along with continued US government mistrust promoted my second visit to Washington D.C. to confront the President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. We were unsuccessful in finding peaceful terms. Congress proposed that we move our reservation and that we be
You see as well as I that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done from our brothers, the French....Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer. Nothing prevents us; they are few in numbers, and we can accomplish it. I believed that an attack on Fort Detroit would prove most beneficial. Along with about 50 other Indian tribesmen, we scouted the fort and properly planned out our attack. On May 7, 1763 myself and 300 men attempted our sneak attack on Fort Detroit but apparently British commander Henry Gladwin ad been informed because he had over 100 men armed and ready for our arrival. We retreated but did not give up. Two days later we attacked Fort Detroit. Joined by 900 tribesmen and over 12 different tribes, our actions quickly spread out to other tribes and encouraged their involvement. This was the beginning of what is know today as the Pontiac War, suitably named. Our efforts were not victorious is seizing the fort, but were did successfully defeat a British retreat at the Battle of Bloody Run in July 1763, The French of course, were unharmed. Eventually we retracted our efforts and I returned to the native land of my family. Unsatisfied with the outcome at Fort Detroit, my organized attacks against the British …show more content…
A common misconception is that I was chief of all the Sioux tribes but that was not the case as the tribe had several subsections each with their own prominent leader and chief in place. Like many other indian tribes at the time, my focal point was retaining native indian land and driving out the presence of US military forces on our land. Several small raids and attacks on US military forces between 1866 and 1868 are described today the Red Cloud War. One of the most influential Indian attack on US forces was in 1866 and is referred today by the white man as Ferterman Massacre. Our forces of over 2,000 Sioux tribesmen defeated the US forces of barely 80 soldiers and resulted in the signing of the peace Treaty of Fort Laramie. The treaty assigned us to land know as the Great Sioux Reservation. The treaty also included that the US government would supply us food, supplies and weekly rations. Most of the time our supplies were either late or non existent and the food was spoiled. The US government was not keeping up their terms of the treaty. Also miners were coming onto our land in search of rumored gold in the area. These actions along with continued US government mistrust promoted my second visit to Washington D.C. to confront the President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. We were unsuccessful in finding peaceful terms. Congress proposed that we move our reservation and that we be