| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. By John Sugden. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii, 350 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-4288-3.)

Through impressive research in Canada, England, and the United States, John Sugden's definitive study of Blue Jacket challenges long-held assumptions about the famous Shawnee war chief and his place in the history of the Old Northwest. Sugden rejects the belief that Blue Jacket was a white captive turned Indian war hero, demonstrating that the Shawnee-born Blue Jacket became the "soul of the Indian opposition" to American expansion between the conclusion of the Revolutionary War and the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. As the principal architect of pan-Indian resistance during the 1780s and 1790s, Blue Jacket eclipsed rivals for power such as Little Turtle of the Miamis and paved the way for future pan-Indian confederacies. 1

Born at a time of intensive trade with both the French and the British, Blue Jacket spent the majority of his life managing the new possibilities brought by the fur trade against the horrors of intercolonial warfare in the Ohio Valley. War with frontiersmen, who surged into the region south of the Ohio after the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, consumed his early years. The Shawnees defended their hunting grounds with little support from neighboring tribes and, as a result, permanently lost Kentucky by 1782. . . .

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