Blue Jacket
Subtitle: Warrior of the Shawnees (American Indian Lives)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780803242883
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Shawnee Indians; History: American; Native Americans - Plains; b. ca. 1752; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; People of Color; The Americas; Kings and rulers; Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans; Native Americans; History / General; Wars; Historical - General; Native American; Biography; Blue Jacket,
Description: "Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the most influential Native American leader of his time. He was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into their homeland in the Ohio River valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnee's independence and territory.

He fielded large forces (his warriors inflicted greater losses upon the American army than those of Cochise, Geronimo, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull combined), won unprecedented military and diplomatic victories, and during his later years inspired and mentored the legendary Tecumseh. In this account, John Sugden, the biographer of Tecumseh, restores Blue Jacket to his rightful place of prominence in American history."--BOOK JACKET.