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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...

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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!

Cornstalk

Cornstalk

Cornstalk

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Born: 1720

Died: November 10, 1777 (aged 57)

Bio: Cornstalk was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolution. His name, Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English, and is spelled Colesqua in some accounts.

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