AUGUST 6:

Max Gros-Louis (Oné-Onti) 1931- Former Chief of the Huron nation at Lorette, born in Loretteville, Quebec. After a career in the handicraft business, Gros-Louis was elected Chief in 1964. He helped establish the Canadian Indian Pavilion at Expo 67 and found the Indians of Quebec Association in 1966.  He was re-elected Grande Chef in 2004.

1991 Ottawa Ontario Environment Minister Jean Charest announces new Aulavik National Park on Banks Island in Western Arctic; 12,000 sq km; Aulavik means 'where people travel' in Inuit.

1777 Oriskany New York Nicholas Herkimer 1728-1777 moves to relieve Fort Stanwyck; attacked by Mohawks under Joseph Brant; badly wounded; Indians retreat when reinforcements arrive from Fort Stanwyck.

1777 Oriskany New York John Johnson 1742-1830, with John Butler and Joseph Brant and a force of Loyalists and Indians, ambushes American Gen. Nicholas Herkimer carrying reinforcements.

1991 Thunder Bay Ontario Bob Rae 1949- recognizes First Nations right to self government; Ontario to devolve powers to each nation; policing, justice, medical care, education and resources.

August 6, 1676:  Weetamoo was the Sachem of the Wampanoag town of Pocasset, Rhode Island.  The sister-in-law of King Philip, she led as many as 300 warriors in battle.  Today, while trying to escape from European soldiers from Taunton, Massachusetts, she will drown in the Taunton River.   Her head will be cut off and displayed on a pole in town.

August 6, 1840:  Today hundreds of Comanches, led by Buffalo Hump, surround and attack Victoria, Texas.  In the next two days fifteen settlers are killed in the fighting.  The Comanches will take several hundred head of livestock.
 

BACKGROUND:

Namumpum - Alive in Jun 1675 in Pocasset.  Benjamin Church had come to visit her at this time, having heard from Seconet that trouble with Philip was pending immediately. She being absent, he spoke with her husband who confirmed that which he had learned at Seconet. Namely, he said there would certainly be war, as Philip had performed war dances earlier in the week. Her husband urged Church to see Weetamoo who was not far away, which he did. He found her with few men, she saying that they were with Philip at the war-dances. He urged her at this time to put herself into Rhode Island and to so inform Plymouth. Subsequently she did so, but hostilies from the English there and the burning of her home gave her little choice other than to join Philip.

At this time Weetamoo had about 300 men, and she is here noted again as being the former wife of Alexander. In a footnote taken from the Old English Chronicles, she is noted "as potent a prince as any round her." She died about Aug 1676 in Taunton, MA.  Captured by a small company sent out from Taunton, she drowned while trying to escape upon a small raft across the river. Her body was found a few days after, her head was severed, and being placed upon a pole was paraded in the street at Taunton. She was also known as Weetamoo, Tatapanunum.

Weetamo, is thought to be the daughter of Corbitant and is said to have been proud, imperious and self-reliant. Of her early history little is known but that she was known as Nummumpaum and was married by 1651 to Weequequinequa. She was "heire apparent and trewe inheritor" of the territory now included within the limits of the town of Tiverton RI, and enjoyed the title of "squaw sachem," or queen of the Pocasset. In 1656 she had become the wife of Massasoit's eldest son Wamsutta and called herself Tatapanum. This accounting says she married after Alexander's death one called Quiquequanchett taking up residence in her own territory, Pocasset, followed by two addtional husbands.
 

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