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Lenape (Delaware) war chief · Of the White River towns
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Buckongahelas, whose name is glossed "breaker in pieces," led his Lenape band west from the Delaware country to the White River, in the country of present Muncie, breaking with White Eyes's pro-American faction to become one of the principal war leaders of the western confederacy. His warriors fought in the defeats of Harmar (1790) and St. Clair (1791) and at Fallen Timbers (1794) — the campaigns that decided whether Fort Wayne would stand. He signed the Treaty of Greenville on 3 August 1795, the Treaty of Fort Wayne on 7 June 1803, and the treaty at Vincennes of 18 August 1804. The Lenape called him their George Washington. He died on the White River in May 1805, of smallpox or influenza, said to be eighty-five years old.
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Sources: Wikipedia, "Buckongahelas"; Thatcher, Indian Biography (1832).