OCTOBER 15:

1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 charged with a warrant of outlawry by a Manitoba court.

1763: Earlier in the year, the father of Delaware Chief, Captain Bull, was burned to death by white settlers. Today, to retaliate, his son Captain Bull, and his followers, will attack, and destroy, most of the white settlements in the Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania.

1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday sights the Rocky Mountains, near present day Red Deer; Hudson Bay Company employee is trying to get the Blackfoot to travel to Hudson Bay, avoiding the Cree middlemen.

1666 New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 puts Mohawk villages to the torch after making peace with Senecas and Oneidas; claims Iroquois territory for Louis XIV.

1582 France - Gregorian calendar introduced in Catholic countries, cutting 10 prior days (October 5 becomes October 15). 

October 15, 1615: Today, Samuel de Champlain, 12 Frenchmen, and many of his Huron allies, attack the Iroquois town of Onondaga. Champlain will be wounded, and several Hurons will be killed. Champlain will give up the attack. Because of Champlain's actions, the Iroquois will fight the French for years to come.
 

BACKGROUND:
 

Teedyuscung (the following offered as background information that of Captain Bull.
 

From http://www.insiders.com/poconos/main-native.htm
 
 

Eighteen years after the infamous Walking Purchase, the Delawares finally retaliated with all their might. Under the leadership of Delaware chief, Teedyuscung (converted to Christianity by the Moravians), and supported by the French who were fighting the British in the French and Indian War, they attacked. The irony of the revenge: The first attack, on November 24, 1755, was directed against the peaceful Moravians who had established a mission at Gnadenhuetten ("tents of mercy") and who supported the Indians entirely. (Teedyuscung, who had been baptized by the Moravians five years earlier, did not take part in that attack.) With Gnadenhuetten as their starting point, the Delawares waged a bloody assault against the settlers, killing them and burning settlement after settlement - but only in the area of the Walking Purchase.

Wars were waged by Indians and Europeans alike, and atrocities were committed on both sides. In 1756, '57 and '58, meetings were held to try and end the bloodshed. With some Quaker support Teedyuscung attended the meetings with the Colonists. In speech after speech, he defended his people and their position, pleading their cause to the governor in Philadelphia. Quakers urged Teedyuscung to have a scribe write down all proceedings to prevent another "agreement" like the one that precipitated the Walking Purchase problem - the never-found original 1686 treaty with William Penn. He pleaded to no avail, and the Delawares were ordered to remove themselves to Shamokin and Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Teedyuscung died in a house fire in 1763 during the years of tension-filled peace that followed the 1758 removal of the Delawares.
 

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From http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Braxton/brahistory.html
 
 

Braxton County was the location of a famous Indian massacre. A 1764 treaty with the various Indian tribes was violated in 1772 when several Indians were murdered on the South Branch of the Potomac River by Nicholas Harpold and his companions. About the same time, Bald Eagle, an Indian chief of some notoriety, was murdered while on a hunting trip on the Monongahela River. In the meantime, Captain Bull, the son of the Delaware Indian Chief Teeyuscung, and other Indian families were living in Braxton County in an area known as Bulltown on the Little Kanawha River about 14 miles from present-day Sutton. Captain Bull was regarded by most of the settlers in the region as friendly, but there were some white families who suspected Captain Bull of providing information to and harboring unfriendly Indians. While away from home in June, the family German immigrant Peter Stroud was murdered, presumably by Indians. The trail left by the murderers led in the general direction of Bulltown. Peter's brother, Adam Stroud, had a cabin nearby and seeing smoke rising into the sky, raced to his brother's cabin. He gathered up what was left of the bodies and buried them. Peter then headed for Hacker's Creek where he met with several others who agreed to join him in an attack on Bulltown. They killed all of the Indians in the village and threw their bodies into a nearby river. Here, the facts surrounding the incident become murky. Historians believe there were Delaware Indians killed at Bulltown, but there is a dispute over whether Captain Bull himself perished during the attack. Some have reported that Captain Bull was not present during the raid because he had previously left for Ohio following the death of one of his children. Those who subscribe to the theory of Captain Bull's absence during the massacre tend to believe he died in 1781 after being attacked by Colonel Lowther's company near Isaac's Creek in West Virginia. News of Captain Bull's massacre (or at least the Massacre at Bulltown) spread across the western frontier and set off a series of incidents between the Indians and the English settlers, ending the eight years of peace on the western frontier.

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From http://www.catskillonline.com/history/tusten/
 

Tusten derives its name from Colonel Benjamin Tusten, a 36-year-old Goshen, N.Y. physician and militia colonel who died in the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779, as local militiamen fought a combined band of Indians and Tories under the command of Mohawk chieftain "Captain" Joseph Brant. Although not documented, the first settlement in the township was reportedly located near the confluence of the Ten Mile River and Delaware River in 1751, when a group of Connecticut citizens in the employ of the Delaware Company established residence there. This small group of about 20 souls was massacred in its entirety in April 1763, by an Indian group en route to attack the Cushetunk Settlement near present-day Milanville. The impetus for the attack was the death of Chief Teedyuscung, whose sun, Captain Bull, blamed on white settlers in the Wilkes-Barre area; and as Cushetunk was seen as the gateway for white men onto Indian lands in eastern Pennsylvania, he was determined to eradicate it, along with any other settlements along the way. Unfortunately the Tusten settlement, as it is now known, was along his intended route of destruction.