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Blue Jacket
Blue Jacket was a Shawnee warrior and diplomat who worked to resist European expansion west of the Appalachians in the late 1700s. Myth and mystery obscure the facts of his life. West Virginia was long considered to be his birthplace, but this is uncertain. He may have actually been born in Pennsylvania, probably some time in the mid-1700s.
He is best known for his confrontations with armies led by Gen. Josiah Harmar and Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne. In October 1790, Blue Jacket joined Little Turtle in leading a multi-tribal confederacy to defeat Harmar at the head of the Maumee River. Then in August 1794, Indians suffered a pivotal defeat in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio, when Blue Jacket's warriors were defeated by General Wayne. This defeat removed the Indian threat from the Ohio Valley, ending the frontier wars in West Virginia.
After the battle, Blue Jacket, representing the Indian confederacy, signed the Treaty of Greenville, ceding half of what is now Ohio to the Americans. He remained a spokesman for the Shawnees, calling on Indians to reject the contam
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Charles Blue Jacket
Shawnee chief and Methodist minister
For other people named Bluejacket, see Bluejacket (disambiguation).
Charles Blue Jacket (1817 – October 29, 1897)[1] was a Shawnee chief in Kansas, as well as a Methodist minister. He was the grandson of the Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket by his son George Blue Jacket. Charles' mother is unknown, but is believed to have been a Shawnee. His maternal grandmother was the daughter of a Shawnee woman and Jacques Baby.
The younger Blue Jacket was born along the south banks of the Huron River in Michigan in what is today Monroe County, Michigan. However, a very short time after Blue Jacket's birth, the family moved to Piqua, Ohio.
Blue Jacket was educated at the Quaker School in Piqua and mission schools in Kansas. The Blue Jacket family moved to Kansas in 1833.[2] He served as an interpreter for the United States governor and was a farmer and businessman in what is today Kansas City, Kansas and its vicinity. He raised large numbers of hogs and cattle.[3] Also, in 1855, Blue Jacket and two of h
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Blue Jacket
Blue Jacket was born around 1745, but it is not known where as there is no record of him until around the 1790s. His Indian name was Weyapiersenwah, although there is conjecture by many historians that perhaps he was actually Marmaduke Van Swerangen, a Virginia white boy captured by the Shawnee during the Revolutionary War. However, to add some light to this controversy, some people who claim to be descendents of Blue Jacket, have had DNA testing and as result of these tests, Blue Jacket was NOT of white ancestry. Whether he was a captured white boy, or of Shawnee descent, what is known is that he was a fearless leader of the Shawnees in the late 1700s.
In 1774, Blue Jacket participated in Lord Dunmore's War, during which militiamen from Pennsylvania and Virginia tried to force the Ohio territory peoples to cede some of their lands. The British defeated the Shawnee in the Battle of Point Pleasant, but Blue Jacket emerged as a strong Shawnee leader.
Blue Jacket was an advocate for reviving a confederacy of western tribes through a cultivation support with the many I