Shabonee

Shabonee

▪ Potawatomi chief
also spelled  Shabbona  
born c. 1775, near Maumee River [Ohio, U.S.]
died July 17, 1859, Morris, Ill., U.S.

      Potawatomi Indian chief, hero of a Paul Revere-style ride through northern Illinois in 1832, the purpose of which was to warn white settlers of an imminent Indian raid during the Black Hawk War.

      By birth an Ottawa Indian, Shabonee married the daughter of a Potawatomi chief and succeeded him as tribal leader. Although an adherent of Tecumseh, whom he had assisted in forming an intertribal confederation, he was disinclined to violence against whites and is credited with saving many northern Illinois residents from death in the Indian massacre of August 1812. He also assumed a protective role during the Winnebago uprising of 1827. He was ill repaid for his efforts; legal maneuvers by whites deprived him of his land. Shabbona State Park in LaSalle County, Ill., established in 1906, is named in his honour.

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