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Pontiac

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Pontiac

Original Name
Obwandiyag
Birth
Death
20 Apr 1769 (aged 48–49)
Cahokia, St. Clair County, Illinois, USA
Burial*
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA

* Alleged or in dispute burial location

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Native American Tribal Chief. Chief of the Ottawa Indians, in 1763 he led the "Pontiac Conspiracy", an uprising against the British that spanned from the Great Lakes Region, to New York and then to Pennsylvania. He hoped to receive help from French troops, but none came. His plan was to wipe out a British settlement in the Appalachian Mountains, he nearly succeeded, but after conquering Detroit he made peace in 1765.
Native American Tribal Chief. Chief of the Ottawa Indians, in 1763 he led the "Pontiac Conspiracy", an uprising against the British that spanned from the Great Lakes Region, to New York and then to Pennsylvania. He hoped to receive help from French troops, but none came. His plan was to wipe out a British settlement in the Appalachian Mountains, he nearly succeeded, but after conquering Detroit he made peace in 1765.

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Here lie the remains of Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa people and leader of the greatest alliance of Native Americans against white expansion in the United States and Canada.
Pontiac was born around 1720 and became chief of the Ottawas in 1755. Pontiac organized a coalition of tribes that stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. In 1763 the tribes struck simultaneously at 14 British posts. Pontiac personally led the five-month attack on Fort Detroit, which ended in defeat when Britain forged peace with France, its other adversary for expansion in the New World. Pontiac realized the hopelessness of his cause and negotiated a peace treaty with the British in 1765.
In 1769 a member of a rival tribe in Cahokia, Illinois murdered Pointiac. His remains were buried here, then the edge of the village of St. Louis

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2002
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6872877/pontiac: accessed ), memorial page for Pontiac (1720–20 Apr 1769), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6872877, citing Chief Pontiac Gravesite, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.