- [Announcer] This Indiana Bicentennial Minute
is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society
and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.
- [Narrator] Miami, Piankeshaw, Kickapoo, Delaware,
just some of the Native American tribes that made
Indiana the land of the Indians,
holding off advancing whites for years.
The Miami war chief Little Turtle defeated
General Arthur St. Clair in 1791,
the biggest Native American victory over the US ever.
20 years later, Tecumseh, a Shawnee leader,
tried to unite all Indians.
But his brother the Prophet was defeated
at the Battle of Tippecanoe
by General William Henry Harrison,
and Tecumseh killed in battle two years later.
The Native American tribes were forcibly removed
from Indiana, including the Potawatomi
in 1838's Trail of Death.
Yet a proud heritage lives on
in 20,000 Native American Hoosiers today.
- [Announcer] This Indiana Bicentennial Minute
is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society
and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.