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Egushawa and the Odawa in Kentucky’s War Years
Egushawa (also Au-goosh-away), the Detroit-area Odawa war chief often treated as Pontiac’s successor, helped Britain recruit Wabash and Great Lakes allies against Kentucky settlements.
In 1780 he led an Ottawa contingent with Capt. Henry Bird’s cannon-backed invasion that forced the surrenders at Ruddell’s and Martin’s stations and marched hundreds of prisoners north toward Detroit.
After 1783 he rejected land cessions made without tribal consent, fought in the Northwest Confederacy’s victories over Harmar and St. Clair, was wounded at Fallen Timbers in 1794, and signed Greenville in 1795 as a principal Ottawa spokesman—tying Odawa strategy on the Maumee and Detroit to the raids that shaped Kentucky’s last Revolutionary decade.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Egushawa and the Odawa in Kentucky’s War Years." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 28, 2026. Last revised September 28, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/egushawa-and-the-odawa-in-kentuckys-war-years/.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Egushawa and the Odawa in Kentucky’s War Years." Kentucky History Drive, published 28 Sept. 2026, last revised 28 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/egushawa-and-the-odawa-in-kentuckys-war-years/.
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