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Blue Jacket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blue Jacket or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – c. 1810) was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country. Perhaps the preeminent American Indian ...
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The early part of the story concerns the fact that Blue Jacket is a "captured" white boy who becomes a great Indian War Chief. If that is not true, then this part of the book is in error. The history of Blue Jacket as an Indian is well written and exciting, in any case.
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This review is from: Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnee (Paperback) ... Search Books by subject:; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/All Ages; Fiction; Biographical - Other; Historical - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary; Blue Jacket,; Indian captivities; Kings and rulers; Shawnee Indians; Wars; b. ca.
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For more than a century, it has been popularly held that the Tri-State (Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky) and Michigan Shawnee Indian war chief, Blue Jacket, was actually a Caucasian and not a Native American.
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Author Institution: Forensic Bioinformatics, Inc., Dayton, OH ... Two distinctly different origins have been ascribed to the great Shawnee war chief Blue Jacket who played a pivotal role in the early history of southwestern Ohio.
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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 he was actually Marmaduke Van Swerangen a Virginia white boy captured by the Shawnee during the Revolutionary War.
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