Editing Little Turtle (section)

{{Short description|Miami chief (c.1747–1812)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = War chief of the [[Miami people]]
| name= Little Turtle<br>Mihšihkinaahkwa 
| image= Little Turtle.jpg
| caption= Lithograph of Little Turtle, reputedly based upon a lost portrait by [[Gilbert Stuart]] that was destroyed when the British [[Burning of Washington|burned Washington, D.C.]], in 1813.<ref>{{cite book|author=Harvey Lewis Carter|title=The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash|url=https://archive.org/details/lifetimesoflittl0000cart|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lifetimesoflittl0000cart/page/62 62–63]|location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-252-01318-8}}</ref>
| birth_date  = 1747/1752
| birth_place = Miami territory, [[Illinois Country]]<br>{{small|(modern [[Whitley County, Indiana]], United States)}}
| death_place = [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], United States
| resting_place =
| allegiance = [[Miami people]]
| serviceyears =
| battles   =  [[La Balme's Defeat]]<ref name=Rafert44>Rafert, ''The Miami Indians of Indiana'', p. 44.</ref><br> [[Northwest Indian Wars]]
| parents     =
}}

'''Little Turtle''' ({{langx|mia|'''Mihšihkinaahkwa'''}}) ({{circa}}1747 {{mdash}} July 14, 1812) was a [[Sachem|Sagamore]] (chief) of the [[Miami people]], who became one of the most famous [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] military leaders. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in the [[Northwest Territory]],"<ref>{{cite book |author=Wiley Sword |title=President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795 |url=https://archive.org/details/treatiseonanalys00girk_836 |url-access=limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/treatiseonanalys00girk_836/page/n119 107]|year=1985 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |isbn=978-0-8061-2488-9}}</ref> although he later signed several treaties ceding land, which caused him to lose his leader status during the battles which became a prelude to the [[War of 1812]]. In the 1790s, Mihšihkinaahkwa led a confederation of native warriors to several major victories against U.S. forces in the [[Northwest Indian Wars]], sometimes called "Little Turtle's War", particularly [[St. Clair's defeat]] in 1791, wherein the confederation defeated General [[Arthur St. Clair]], who lost 900 men in the most decisive loss by the [[U.S. Army]] against Native American forces.