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Title: Indian Biography
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Thatcher, B.B. (Benjamin Bussy), 1809-1840
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Philadelphia : Bowen
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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United States and Great Britain,which commenced in 1812, he was an active ally of the latter, andaccompanied their armies at the head of large bodies of Indians.He fought gallantly in several engagements, and fell gloriously inthe battle of the Thames, where he is supposed, with reason, tohave fallen in a personal conflict with Colonel Richard M. Johnson,of Kentucky. One other trait in the character of this great man deserves to beespecially noticed. Though nurtured in the forest, and accustomedthrough life to scenes of bloodshed, he was humane. While amere boy, he courageously rescued a woman from the cruelty ofher husband, who was beating her, and declared that no man wasworthy of the name of a warrior who could raise his hand in angeragainst a woman. He treated his prisoners with uniform kindness;and, on several occasions, rescued our countrymen from the handsof his enraged followers. The Prophet was living, when we last heard of him, west of theMississippi, in obscurity. W.; ^-^^
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A CnV.VX CJHIRF LuA-^, Chl^^ P,J,7j^h^ci ly J TBowcru Phihd- YOHOLO MICCO. YoHOLo Micco was principal chief of the Eufalo town, whichhes between Tallassee and Oakfuskee, in the Creek nation, theTallapoosa river running through it. In the war of 1813-14,he served with Mcintosh against the hostile Indians, and sharedlargely and honorably in all the battles that were fought. Hisbravery was equalled only by his eloquence, which gained himgreat distinction. He was the speaker of the Creek nation, asOpothle Yoholo was of the division called the Upper towns, andopened the councils on all occasions. At the council called in 1827, by the Little Prince, to receivethe propositions offered by the government through ColonelMKenney, which we have noticed in another place, Yoholo Miccoexplained the object of the mission, in a manner so clear andpointed as not to be easily forgotten by those who heard him. Herose with the unembarrassed dignity of one who, while he felt theresponsibility of his high o

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