Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees HIS010020 From financial advice to hairstyling

From financial advice to hairstyling

Kay Coriat

an area recovering from seven years of devastating British occupation

arrived in the newly-founded town Colorado Springs in November 1871 to organize the first reading room

Published: 12/01/1991

Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees HIS010020 From financial advice to hairstylingBlue Jacket (ca. 1743 ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees' homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees' independence and territory. In this arresting and