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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Sept 22, 2003 8:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by JBuck on Jan 3, 2004 11:02:33 GMT -5
Zohoe,
Thanks for the article and for moderating such a great forum, I'm glad to have found it.
I do have one question though. I believe that the picture that you use as your avatar is actaully of Tenskawatawa (sp?). or the Prophet. and not Tecumseh. To the the best of my knowledge (I could be wrong) there is only one unfinished sketch of Tecumseh. Check out "Tecumseh" by John Sudgen (sp?)
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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Jan 4, 2004 23:38:14 GMT -5
Glad you are enjoying the forum. Please feel free to post on anything that interests you. As for the avatar... It is in fact an engraving that appears in Benson J. Lossing's book "Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812" first published in 1868 and one of the most complete and fascinating of all the early works on the War of 1812. The engraving itself is based on a sketch supposedly made from life by Pierre Le Dru, a French trader who met the famous chief at Vincennes in 1808. According to Sugden's book, Lossing altered the original sketch to show Tecumseh wearing a British regimental coat rather than the buckskins he was said to favor. It is true that no authentic portrait of Tecumseh is known to exist, but the Lossing engraving is generally considered the most accurate. Lossing also included an engraving adapted from another sketch Le Dru did of Tenskwatawa, the Prophet around the same time (as shown below). |
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Post by brianhart on May 4, 2012 2:37:51 GMT -5
Hi Matthew,
This is a great link! I have read it through twice and still not found anything that cites the source of the name of the Mohican River. I'm very curious as to the origin of the name of the Mohican River since the Mohican tribe, as near as I can tell, existed (at first contact) in the Hudson River valley in eastern New York. Obviously, as the white settlers continued their westward expansion, many tribes east of the Allegheny mountains were pushed westward. The only mention I have found of Mohicans living in the vicinity of the Mohican River is "Mahican John's" Indian village, two miles south of present-day Jeromesville, Ohio. I'm still looking for more information on Mahican Indians that lived in the vicinity of southern Ashland and Richland County, Ohio. So far, the pickings have been pretty slim.
Whenever I tell people that the Mohican River and Mohican State Forest was NOT the historical region of the Mohican Indians, I am met with incredulity. I'm convinced that SOME Mohicans did live in this area at some point, for some time, I'm also convinced that they were a displaced minority, living among the Delaware. But basically, I am having a very hard time finding any information on Mohicans that lived in this area. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Brian
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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Aug 15, 2012 8:33:50 GMT -5
I wonder if the Mohican River was one of those that the Ohio legislature renamed in 1833 in an attempt to "restore" Indian names to Ohio rivers after the frontier period had ended.
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