Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black HUF-Lithographie von John I.T. Bowens lithographischen Einrichtung, 1838. Catecahassa oder Black Hoof (1740-1831) war der Kopf zivilen Häuptling der Shawnee-Indianer. Ein Mitglied der Mekoche Abteilung der Shawnees, wurde er bekannt als ein fi
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Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black Hoof lithograph by John I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment, 1838. Catecahassa or Black Hoof (1740 - 1831) was the head civil chief of the Shawnee Indians. A member of the Mekoche division of the Shawnees, he became known as a fierce warrior during the early wars between the Shawnee and Anglo-American colonists. Black Hoof claimed to have been present at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755, when General Edward Braddock was defeated during the French and Indian War, although there is no contemporary evidence that Shawnees took part in that battle. During the American Revolutionary War, he may have taken part in the siege of Boonesborough in 1778, which was led by Chief Blackfish, as well as the subsequent defense of the Shawnee village of Chillicothe in 1779. In the Northwest Indian War, Black Hoof was defeated by "Mad" Anthony Wayne and, following the collapse of the Indian confederation, surrendered in 1795. Black Hoof decided that American Indians needed to adapt culturally to the ways of the whites in order to prevent decimation through warfare. During his later years, Black Hoof became an ally of the United States and was responsible for keeping the majority of the Shawnee nation from joining "Tecumseh's War", which became part of the War of 1812. He resisted the policy of Indian removal that the United States implemented soon after the War of 1812. He never signed a removal treaty, and continued to lead his tribe until his death in 1831. After his death, the Shawnee were eventually compelled to emigrate to the West.
