chief pontiac biography Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/chief-pontiac-biography Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Pontiac c. 1720–1769 http://travelsfinders.com/pontiac-c-1720-1769.html http://travelsfinders.com/pontiac-c-1720-1769.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 18:54:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203782 Little is known about the early life and career of Pontiac, an Ottawa war leader most closely associated with a series of frontier attacks known as Pontiac’s Rebellion. Euro-American recreations of his life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made him one of the country’s most famous Native Americans, a symbol of fierce resistance to European colonization, and a leader of a racial struggle for the Great Lakes region. Pontiac’s legacy is more complex and interesting than the two-dimensional portrayals allow. It deserves to be understood within the context of mideighteenth-century America. Setting the Stage: North America in 1760 The

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