SEPTEMBER 26:

1990 Oka Quebec - Army officials take 34 men, 16 women and six children into custody from their stronghold in a drug treatment centre; most taken to military base at Farnham, Quebec; 78-day standoff ends

September 26, 1840:  On this date, on the Creek reservation in Indian Territory, eventual Principal Chief Pleasant Porter (Talof Harjo) was born.

September 26, 1760:  Because of the recent fighting with British forces, over 2000 Cherokees met in Nequassee (modern-day Franklin, North Carolina) to hear Chiefs Oconostota and Ostenaco talk of "burying the hatchet".  It was agreed the fighting should end.  The British, however, still wanted to fight in order to avenge their losses at Fort Loudon.

September 26, 1706:  Miskouaki, an Ottawa from Mackinaw, meets with the Marquis de Vaudreuil. He tells him the Miami and the Ottawa have been fighting each other near Detroit.

September 26, 1675:  Troops under Virginia Colonel John Washington and Maryland Major Thomas Trueman surround the main base of the Susquehannock Indians. They are there to discover if the Indians are responsible for attacking colonial settlements. Trueman calls out the Susquehannock for a conference under a flag of truce. Five Chiefs come out of their fortified position to talk. They deny being involved in the attacks. Trueman has them led away and killed. Trueman gets off with a minor fine from the Maryland Assembly for this act.

1634 Quebec - Father Jean de Brébeuf baptizes the mother of an Indian chief. 
 

BACKGROUND:
 

Words Spoken - Pleasant Porter

"Experience is the wisest teacher, and history does not furnish an example of a forced civilization being permanent and real."
 

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Talof Harjo (Crazy Bear)
 

Brief biographical notes from http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknowata/porter.htm
 

Pleasant Porter was born on a plantation near Clarksville, in the Creek Nation, September 26, 1840. His father was a member of the prominent family in Pennsylvania and his mother was a daughter of an influential Creek Chief. He was educated in the Presbyterian Indian Mission school, at Tullahassee. He entered the Confederate Army as a private when the Creek Nation became involved in the Civil War. The end of the war found him a first lieutenant. Impoverished by the results of the war in his country, he took up the life of a farmer. His first official position was that of tribal superintendent of schools. Afterward he was called upon to represent the people of his tribe at Washington. During the last years of his life he was Principal Chief of the Creek Nation. His death occurred at Vinita, in September, 1907.