Birch Bark Wigwam - George Rogers Clark Park - Ohio
by Gary Whitton
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Birch Bark Wigwam - George Rogers Clark Park - Ohio
Artist
Gary Whitton
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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This Native American Birch Bark Wigwam, is part of an open-air museum near Springfield, Ohio, that re-creates a variety of different dwellings and structures that one might have seen in different Eastern Woodland Indian villages. In particular the dwellings represent what the Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh might have seen during his attempts to unite Eastern tribes against American colonists in a Native American Confederacy. This particular dwelling comes from the the Northeastern woodlands of Ontario, Canada, and parts of Maine. The homeland of the Miꞌkmaq people.
The Birch Bark wigwam is very similar in design to the commonly known teepee of the Plains state, except that in that case buffalo hides were used in place of the birch bark, since Bison were quite plentiful in areas of vast praire land, while not as common either in Ohio, or where the Mi'kmaq were located in eastern Canada.
Tecumseh ultimately died during the Battle of 1812, having allied with the British in the conflict.
The village is located in the vicinity of two former Shawnee villages (Peckuwe and Kispoko) that were attacked by George Rogers Clark, during the battle of Peckuwe in 1780.
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