Description: Illustration titled "Visit of Pontiac and the Indians to Major Gladwin." Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa Tribe, united a coalition of American Indian tribes to resist British rule in the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley. He led an uprising at Fort Detroit known as Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763, but the tribes were not able to overcome the fort's strong fortifications in spite of a five-month siege. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02710
Subjects: Pontiac, d. 1769; American Indian history and society; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Ottawa Tribe
Places: Fort Detroit
 

Description: This image shows Bouquet's Monument in the vicinity of Warsaw, Ohio. The engraving reads in part "BOUQUETS CAMP." Henry Bouquet (1719-1766) was a British officer in the English military. In 1756, the English government transferred him to North America to help seize France's possessions and to defend the British colonies during the French and Indian War. Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa Tribe, united a coalition of American Indian tribes to resist British rule in the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley. He led an uprising at Fort Detroit known as Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. To subdue Pontiac's Rebellion, Bouquet led a force of nearly 1,500 militiamen and regular soldiers from the fort into the heart of the Ohio Country. A formal peace treaty was signed in the spring of 1765 and the American Indian troops returned all of their captives. In return, Bouquet promised not to destroy the tribes' villages or seize any of their land. Bouquet's army left for Fort Pitt on November 18. His campaign became known as Bouquet's Expedition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06501
Subjects: Pontiac, d. 1769; American Indian history and society; Monuments; Ottawa Tribe
Places: Warsaw (Ohio); Coshocton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Pontiac The great chief of the Ottawas, leader of the Indians of the Middle West in the Seven Year War." Chief Pontiac was born circa 1720. By 1755, he was a chief of the Ottawa Tribe. Pontiac subscribed to the religious beliefs of Neolin, a prophet of the Delaware people, who encouraged native people to forsake English goods and customs. When the French and Indian War ended in 1763, all French lands in North America were turned over to the English. American Indians lost their long-time French ally and worried that more British settlers would come to the Ohio Country. Pontiac and the Ottawas, in the interest of protecting their lands, encouraged tribes in the Ohio Country to rise up in 1763. The Ottawa attacked Fort Detroit in May 1763; the Shawnee, Munsee, Wyandot, Seneca and Delaware people also raided English settlements in the Ohio Country and in western Pennsylvania during 1763. The English military invaded the Ohio Country from Pennsylvania in the fall of 1764 and subdued the area's American Indian tribes. Pontiac's Rebellion ended in the fall of 1764, and Pontiac formally surrendered to the English in July 1766. In 1769, he was murdered by a member of the Peoria Tribe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07606
Subjects: Pontiac, d. 1769; American Indian history and society; American Indians in Ohio; Ottawa Tribe; American Indian tribal leaders
 

Description: Reproduction of an illustration depicting Pontiac, an Ottawa chief. This portrait appears as a print in SC 208, the Chief Pontiac Collection, and in publication in "The Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs" by Norman B. Wood (1906). Chief Pontiac was born ca. 1720. By 1755, he was a chief of the Ottawas. Pontiac subscribed to the religious beliefs of Neolin, a prophet of the Delaware people, who encouraged native people to forsake English goods and customs. When the French and Indian War ended in 1763, all French lands in North America were turned over to the English. American Indians lost their long-time French ally and worried that more British settlers would come to the Ohio Country. Pontiac and the Ottawas, in the interest of protecting their lands, encouraged tribes in the Ohio Country to rise up in 1763. The Ottawa attacked Fort Detroit in May 1763; the Shawnee, Munsee, Wyandot, Seneca and Delaware people also raided English settlements in the Ohio Country and in western Pennsylvania during 1763. The English military invaded the Ohio Country from Pennsylvania in the fall of 1764 and subdued the area's American Indian tribes. Pontiac's Rebellion ended in the fall of 1764, and Pontiac formally surrendered to the English in July 1766. In 1769, he was murdered by a member of the Peoria Tribe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02991
Subjects: Pontiac, d. 1769; American Indians; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Ottawa Tribe; American Indian tribal leaders