Cornstalk

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Cornstalk fue un líder shawnee en la región de Ohio en las décadas de 1760 y 1770. Su nombre en el idioma shawnee era Hokoleskwa. Se sabe poco sobre su vida temprana. Es posible que haya nacido en la provincia de Pensilvania. En 1763, supuestamente lideró una incursión contra los colonos británicos americanos en la Guerra de Pontiac. Aparece por primera vez en documentos históricos en 1764, cuando fue uno de los rehenes entregados a los británicos como parte de las negociaciones de paz que pusieron fin a la Guerra de Pontiac.

Occupation: traditional leader or chief
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1710
Died: November 10, 1777

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“Pretend to be friendly. Eat with them. Laugh with them. When they are sated and trust you, attack them, kill all their men and kidnap their women and children!”
— Plan of attack at the Muddy Creek Massacre.
“What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done. Then let us kill all our women and children and go fight until we die? I shall go and make peace!”
— Cornstalk to Shawnee council after the Battle of Point Pleasant (October 1774), as quoted in I Have Spoken : American History through the voices of the Indians‎ (1971) by Virginia Irving Armstrong, p. 27
“When I was a young man and went to war, I thought that might be the last time, and I would return no more. Now I am here among you; you may kill me if you please; I can die but once; and it is all one to me, now or another time.”
— Speech at Point Pleasant, on his mission to warn the settlers that other Shawnee intended to attack them, just prior to his death (November 1777), as quoted in "Cornstalk, the Shawanee Chief" by Rev. William Henry Foote, in The Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 16, Issue 9, (September 1850) pp. 533-540
“My son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together; and has sent you here. It is his will. Let us submit. It is best...”
— To his son Elinipsico as a mob approached them in Point Pleasant (10 November 1777), as quoted in "Cornstalk, the Shawanee Chief" by Rev. William Henry Foote, in The Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 16, Issue 9, (September 1850) pp. 533-540
“When Cornstalk arose, he was in no wise confused or daunted, but spoke in a distinct and audible voice, without stammering, or repetition, and with peculiar emphasis. His looks while addressing Dunmore were truly grand, yet graceful and attractive.”
— Colonel Benjamin Wilson (1777), on Cornstalk's speech after the battle of Point Pleasant, as quoted in "Cornstalk, the Shawanee Chief" by Rev. William Henry Foote, in The Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 16, Issue 9, (September 1850) pp. 533-540

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