Defiance High School - Panorama Yearbook (Defiance, OH)

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X A 1 A I9 .1 T IDJEF ANCE NTO history's tapestry there is woven no more glamorous figure than that of the greatest of all Indian Chieftains, Pontiac, the Ottawa. This powerful champion of a trammeled race was born at the junction of the Maumee and Au- glaize about 1 712. Possessed of a broad, powerful. and penetrating intellect, a subtlety and craft in which he knew no superior, and an unlimited ambition, he engineered the greatest conspiracy of Indians ever attempted. His understanding reached to higher generalization and broader com- prehensions than any other Indian mind. In him were combined the qualities of an astute leader, a remarkable warrior and a broad-minded states- man. His campaign against the British in Detroit is probably one of the greatest feats of Indian his- tory. Its failure to reach attainment was due solely to the lack of French cooperation. Pontiac, a broken warrior, returned to the Maumee basin and spent his last years in this stronghold. Pontiac met death at the hands of a Kaskaskian Indian, bribed by a British trader, whose toma- hawk found lodgment in his brain. 'Thus passed one of Americas greatest aborigines. X 14