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chief.

Biography

He was a member of the Wyandotte tribe. At the beginning of the

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, he offered his services to Gen.

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, but they were declined, owing to the unwillingness of that officer to employ "savages." He was afterward forced by circumstances to join the

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at Malden, but he was instrumental in persuading several tribes to remain neutral, and in a council at that place he vindicated his course in a speech that was called by his enemies "American talk." After this, Walk-in-the-Water and his associates openly broke with

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and The Prophet, and declined to remain with the British, deserting from Gen. Henry Proctor at Chatham, Canada. At the

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he offered his services, with those of sixty warriors, conditionally, to Gen.

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, who declined them, and the Hurons returned to

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. His totem was a turtle.

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* 1810s deaths Wyandot people Native American leaders Native Americans in the War of 1812 Year of birth unknown {{NativeAmerican-politician-stub