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Prophetstown for Their Own Purposes Violence and American Expansion Violence as empowering Factionalism o French and Miamis o Miamis o Americans Miami Identity William Wells o U.S. Indian Agent o Once a captive The


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Prophetstown for Their Own Purposes

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 Violence and American

Expansion

 Violence as

empowering

 Factionalism

  • French and Miamis
  • Miamis
  • Americans

 Miami Identity

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William Wells

  • U.S. Indian Agent
  • Once a captive

The Prophet as a threat Miamis in trouble Identity Rumors and fear Damned

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French traders

  • Troubles
  • Varied

allegiances

Spring of 1809 Estimates

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“Nine tenths of them prefer the

interests of the Indians to that of their employers.”

  • Harrison to Secretary of War William Eustis
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The Indian woman had been killed

by “by Some of the Prophets Party to carry on the deception and to prevent us from taking the alarm at the force he is collecting . . .”

  • Toussaint Dubois to Harrison
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Territorial Election

and the Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)

Self-defense The Treaty

  • Factions of

Miamis

Elihu Stout and

The Western Sun

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 The Prophet intended “to come [to Vincennes] with

a large body of men that 4 or 5 would be assigned to each House and himself with 12 or 15 would enter [Grouseland] and having destroyed [the governor] a signal would be given by a person posted for that purpose to commence the Massacre in the Town –This fellow [the Prophet] has boasted that he would follow the footsteps of the Great Pontiac.”

  • Harrison to Eustis
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 Why did Harrison fear

the Prophet?

 Factionalism

  • Slavery
  • Anger
  • Treaty of Fort Wayne
  • Outrage

 Visions of

Prophetstown

 Paranoia

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Reframe the

debate

Ethnic factions

NOT nations

Marginalized, but

not powerless

Three narratives