OCTOBER 16:

1989 Toronto Ontario - Roberta Jamieson is appointed Ontario's new ombudsman; the 37-year-old Mohawk is the first aboriginal Canadian to hold the post.

October 16, 1837:  After having fought for the government in the Seminole Wars, Jim Boy "Tustennuggee Emathla", a Creek leader, and some other Creek Chiefs, arrive in New Orleans today en route to the Indian Territory.

1869 Manitoba - Louis Riel elected Secretary of the new Comité National des Métis (National Council of the Metis), formed to discuss their rights with Ottawa; he was well known throughout the Red River Settlement because of his confrontation with the Canadian survey party.

October 16, 1692:  The Diego de Vargas campaign to reconquer New Mexico takes place.

1679 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of Quebec rules that liquor may not be taken to Indian villages.

1666 New York State - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; arrives at deserted Mohawk village of Andarague after rain-soaked march of several days; destroys settlement and Iroquois corn crops. as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help.

1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse drives off Iroquois after two day battle near Montreal; town saved by barking dogs. 
 

BACKGROUND:
 

From http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/crkchfndx.html
 
 

Jim Boy, or Tustenaggee Emathla (c 1790-1841)

A Creek Chief born in the present Macon County. A participant at Fort Mims; served in the war of 1813-14; in the uprising of 1836, and in the Florida War of 1837. He died in 1841 in the Western Creek Nation, was born about 1790 in the Creek Nation, the birth-place not known. Tustenaggee is the Creek term for "warrior;" Emathla is a war title, corresponding nearly to "disciplinarian." Nothing is known of Jim Boy's life prior to the outbreak of the Creek War of 1813, where Pickett calls him High Head Jim. He was chief of the Atossees, and commanded the hostile Creeks at the battle of Burnt Corn, fought March 27, 1813. It is not known in what other battles he was engaged during the war. After its close, he settled near Polecat Spring, and there built a little town called Thlopthlcco. In 181S he served under General McIntosh against the Seminoles in Florida. During the Creek troubles of 1836, he attached himself to the friendly party. At the close of these troubles he was solicited by General Jessup to raise warriors for service against the Seminoles in Florida. He and Paddy Carr accordingly raised nine hundred and fifty warriors and with them reached the seat of war in September. Here the Creeks were organized into a regiment war in September. Here the Creek s were organized into a regiment and placed under the command of Major David Moniac. Jim Boy was with his regiment in two battles and in a number of skirmishes in the Seminole war. The battles were the second battle of Wahoo Swamp, fought in November, 1836, and the battle of Lake Monroe, fought February 8, 1837. The Creeks fought courageously in both these engagements.

On his return from Florida, he found that his family had been removed west in the emigration of the Creeks, and that all his property in the nation had been destroyed. He had joined the army in Florida under a promise of the commending general that his family and property should be cared for, and that he should be remunerated for any loss he might sustain during his absence. This promise was not kept. But all this was a slight trouble compared to the death of four, out of his nine children, who were of the two hundred and thirty-six Creeks that were lost in the sinking of the emigration steamboat, Mommouth.

Jim Boy's home in the Creek Nation west, was near Wetumpka, where he died in 1851. The name of his wife was Nihethoye. Rev. William Jim Boy, a well known Methodist minister in the Creek nation, is a grandson.