The Odawa Traditional Cache
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Here is a brief HISTORY LESSON for all of you: OTTAWA-It's
pronounced "AH-ta-wa," same as the city in Canada (which was named
after them). It is spelled Odawa in their native language, and
means "traders." The Ottawa people call themselves 'Anishinabe' in
their own language, which means 'original person.' The Ottawa
Indians originally lived along the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario
and western Quebec. They moved into northern Ohio circa 1740. They
were part of the Algonquian Indians and are thus related to the
Delaware Indians, the Miami Indians, and the Shawnee Indians. They
were enemies of the Iroquois Indians and never really trusted the
Wyandot Indians because they were related to the Iroquois.
Political alliances were complicated and changed with the times.
Some Ottawas were allies of the French until British traders moved
into the Ohio Country in the early 1700s. Many Ottawas moved into
northern Ohio so that they could participate in the fur trade with
the British. These natives lived in villages along the Cuyahoga,
Maumee, and Sandusky Rivers, but the British were not content just
to trade. Unlike the French, the British wanted to build forts and
towns. They wanted the Indians' land. Pontiac was the most famous
chief of the Ottawa Indians. In 1763, he led a number of Indian
tribes in an attempt to drive the British from their lands. They
destroyed nine out of eleven British forts in the Great Lakes
region. The Indians could not defeat the strong British forts at
Detroit (Fort Detroit) and Pittsburgh (Fort Pitt). Pontiac's
Rebellion came to an end after Colonel Henry Bouquet led a large
army from Fort Pitt into Ohio forcing the Indians to make peace.
During the American Revolution, the Ottawas fought for the British
against the Americans. When the British surrendered to the
Americans, the English turned their backs on their Indian allies.
The Ottawas continued to fight the Americans. General Anthony Wayne
defeated the Ottawas and other Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen
Timbers in 1794. They surrendered most of their lands in Ohio with
the signing of the Treaty of Greenville. In 1833 the United States
forced the Ottawas to give up their few remaining lands in Ohio.
The United States government sent the natives to a reservation in
Kansas
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