LITTLE TURTLE


Meaning of LITTLE TURTLE in English

born 0441; 1752, near Fort Wayne, Ind.

died July 14, 1812, Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S.

American Indian leader.

Chief of the Miami tribe, he led raids on settlements in the Northwest Territory in the early 1790s. Defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), he was obliged to sign the Treaty of Greenville (1795), which ceded to the U.S. much of Ohio and parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. He then advocated peace and prevented the Miami from joining the Shawnee confederacy of Tecumseh .

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