NOVEMBER 22:

November 22, 1812:   Today, Potawatomi Chief Winamac will be killed in fighting with Captain Logan (Spemicalawba). One of two Potawatomi Chiefs with the same name, he was a principle leader in the attacks on Forts Dearborn and Wayne in 1812. The other Winamac was pro-American.

November 22, 1845:  Chahta leader Nitakechi was returned to Mississippi by Superintendent Armstrong, to tell the remaining Chahta of the good conditions in the Indian territory.  While in Mississippi, Nitakechi get pleurisy, and dies on this date.
 
 

BACKGROUND:
 

From http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/7029/fortwayne.html
 

The War of 1812 and the seige of Fort Wayne
 

... As Fort Detroit and Dearborn fell the Indians began attacking all American Forts on the frontier. At Fort Wayne, Indians began to gather outside the Fort. The commander of the fort, Captain James Rhea, began worrying about the threat of a seige and began drinking heavily. This became so much of a problem that two Lieutenants, Curtis and Ostrander, became alarmed. Captain Rhea had allowed two Indian delegations into the Fort hoping for a peaceful solution. What Rhea was really asking for was his safety in return for the fort's surrender. The Commander was so incapitated by his drinking and thought of surrender that the two Lieutenants took charge of the fort. The Fort was under seige from Indian gunfire. This was Fort Wayne's most desperate hour. The homes and buildings around the fort were burned to the ground. The Indians under Chief Winamac tried to attack the fort from the east, setting fire to the woods in hopes of driving the garrison out. The garrison of approximately 100 men fought gallantly until reinforcements could arrive. On Sepember 12, 1812, William Henry Harrison's troops arrived. The seige was lifted and the fight moved to the north around Fort Detroit. Lieutenant Ostander was given command of the fort as Captain Rhea was relieved of command. The War of 1812 ended with the American victory at the Battle of Ontario. Fort Wayne would never again be sieged or experience a battle.
 

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>From http://www.adamsheritage.com/deedsnations/l.htm
 

Captain Logan / Spemica-Lawba / The High Horn [fl. 1786 onwards; died November 1812 at Fort Winchester], Shawnee/ Chouanon civil chief, Machachac Tribe; 6' tall, 200 pounds; captured as a child by US forces at Penumba on the Ohio River in September 1786; became a friend of the US according to Drake; Captain Logan joined US forces in 1812; he was a guide to Hull's army at Detroit; with the US force that attempted to relieve Fort Wayne in August 1812; accused of giving intelligence to the British he travelled to the Maumee River rapids with Shawnee Chiefs Captain Johnny and Bright Horn to prove his innocence on November 22, 1812, where he was captured at noon by a British force including Matthew Elliot and Pottawatomie Chief Winnemac; when he tried to escape he was mortally wounded, and Chief Winnemac was killed and scalped by Captain Johnny; Chief Logan, Shawnee war chief / interpreter, a young ally of Tecumseh, was killed at Brownstown on August 5, 1812; the children of Captain Logan and Spamagelabe were given a section of land on the Auglaize River, as part of the settlement in the US peace treaty signed at the Miami Rapids on September 29, 1817.