Gambo di Mais
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Quotes
- “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!”
- “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!”
- “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.”
- “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...”
- “There was a time when the name of Cornstalk thrilled every heart in West Virginia. Here and there among the mountains may be found an aged one, who remembers the terrors of Indian warfare as they raged on the rivers, and in the retired glens, west of the Blue Ridge, under that noted savage. Cornstalk was to the Indians of West Virginia, what Powhatan was to the tribes on the Sea Coast, the greatest and the last chief.”
- “Upon reaching a place of safety, the Indians held a council. They had been defeated in their long expected great battle. The "long knives" were pressing on. Cornstalk enquired, what should be done. No one spoke. After a solemn pause, Cornstalk arose. "We must fight, or we are undone. Let us kill our women and children, and go and fight till we die." He sat down. After a long pause, he rose again and striking his tomahawk into the council post, said — "Then I'll go and make peace."”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pennsylvania
- Place of death
- Point Pleasant
- Sibling
- Nonhelema
- Occupation
- traditional leader or chief
- Image
- 1872 Chiefs Cornstalk Logan and Red Eagle from Frosts pictorial history of Indian.jpg
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- date of death
- 1777-11-10
- date of birth
- 1720-00-00
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- Commons category
- Chief Cornstalk
- ethnic group
- Shawnee
Sources (1)
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Article · Italiano
Gambo di Mais (nome Shawnee: Hokoleskwa, Cornstalk) (Pennsylvania, 1720 circa – Point Pleasant, 10 novembre 1777) è stato un importante capo degli Shawnee poco prima della guerra d'indipendenza americana. Il suo nome, Hokoleskwa, viene tradotto approssimativamente in "Gambo di Mais" e si trova scritto Colesqua in alcuni documenti. Era noto anche come Keigh-tugh-qua e Wynepuechsika. Luogo di sepoltura di Cornstalk a Point Pleasant, Virginia Occidentale Gambo di Mais si oppose in gioventù alla colonizzazione europea ad ovest del fiume Ohio, ma in seguito divenne sostenitore della pace dopo la battaglia di Point Pleasant. Il suo omicidio da parte delle milizie americane di durante una visita diplomatica nel novembre 1777 fece infuriare sia nativi americani sia abitanti della Virginia.
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