The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath by David Curtis Skaggs

Author:David Curtis Skaggs [Skaggs, David Curtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, United States, Naval, 19th Century, Modern
ISBN: 9781606351796
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Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2013-01-15T16:06:17+00:00

NOTES

1. R. David Edmunds, The Shawnee Prophet (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 137–42; Sandy Antal, A Wampum Denied: Procter’s War of 1812 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997), 315–54; Robert S. Quimby, The U.S. Army in the War of 1812 : An Operational and Command Study, 2 vols. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997), 1:259–300.

2. Edmunds, The Shawnee Prophet, 142–64.

3. For discussions of the ongoing concerns about British interference in the region, see Kerry Trask, Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), 126–40.

4. “The Declaration of Independence,” National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html; “Memorial of citizens of Shelbyville, Illinois, July 10, 1832,” Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824–1881, roll 132, Record Group 75, M234, National Archives, Washington, DC. Although the quotation refers to Winnebago Indians, I will use Ho Chunk outside of any direct quotes because that is the preferred name in the present day.

5. John P. Bowes, “The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts and the Search for Safety in the Canadian Borderlands,” Michigan Historical Review 34(Spring 2008): 101–8.

6. Linda Sabathy-Judd, ed. and trans., Moravians in Upper Canada: The Diary of the Indian Mission of Fairfield on the Thames, 1792–1813 (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1999), 481–82, 486, 488–89; Bowes, “The Gnadenhutten Effect,” 114.

7. Sabathy-Judd, Moravians in Upper Canada, 495, 504–6, 513–20; R. David Edmunds, Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007), 194–212; Henry Procter to de Rottenburg, 23 Oct. 1813, William Wood, ed., Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, 3 vols. (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1923), 2:323–27.

8. Sabathy-Judd, Moravians in Upper Canada, 506–11.

9. Because the commissioners relied on a template, most of these treaties have the same wording. Examples can be found in Charles Kappler, ed., Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, 7 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904), 2:110–12, 116–69; A. J. Dallas to Richard Graham, 14 July 1815, Clarence Edward Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, 28 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1934–75), 17:198–200; Richard Graham to Secretary of War, 8 July 1816, ibid., 359–61. For similar concerns expressed by local officials, see Ninian Edwards to Secretary of State, 3 Mar. 1816, ibid., 308–10; Ninian Edwards to the Secretary of War, 20 Mar. 1816, ibid., 318–19; Ninian Edwards to the Secretary of War, 18 Nov. 1816, ibid., 430–37.

10. Governor Cass to the Secretary of War, 3 Aug. 1819, Carter, Territorial Papers, 10:852–55; the Secretary of War to Governor Cass, 11 Feb. 1822, ibid., 11:224–25; Governor Cass to the Secretary of War, with enclosures, 27 June 1823, ibid., 375–80.

11. “Return of Indians Dependent on the Post of Amherstburg 15th August 1816,” in “Subsequent Relations, 1816–1819,” Michigan Historical Collections 16 (1890): 523–25.

12. Timothy D. Willig, Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 243–71; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (1821; repr., Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966), 136–38.

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