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Another capture from the The Gathering of Five Medals: That canoe is handmade and has been used on the water. The seat reminds me of a snowshoe, and he said it was pretty comfortable.

Here is bit more information on Chief Five Medals whose village once stood close by where this was taken, but I have heard two different stories on where the village actually stood.

Near old Baintertown on the Elkhart River, before Indiana was a state, before Elkhart County was platted, stood the village of the Potowatomi war chief "Five Medals" whose Indian name was "Onaska". This decorated Indian chief ceased hostilities against the United States government after signing the Greenville Treaty in 1795. He met with presidents George Washington, in 1796, and Thomas Jefferson in 1801, to discuss living at peace with white settlers, separate but side by side. Five Medals remained peaceful toward the U.S. Government even though his village was destroyed by U.S. troops in 1812 and again in 1813. His remains are forever embraced nearby by Mother Earth which the Potowatomi so cherished.

I don't think anyone really knows where his burial is, maybe it's best that way.

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