Archaeology Results at the Battle Peckuwe: Supporting New Narratives

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Continued archaeological and community engaged research at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) located in Springfield, Ohio, is producing results that will help set the stage for updated battlefield interpretation. The largest American Revolution conflict west of the Alleghenies, the ~1200 residents of the Shawnee town of Peckuwe struggled to thwart the attack of a large Kentucky militia force of 1,050 troops led by General George Rogers Clark. US forces won the battle and the Shawnee abandoned the village, which was torched by Clark’s troops. This attack foreshadowed a pattern of US transgression in the Northwest Territory where American forces violated Native territory, ultimately culminating in land cessions and eventual forced removal of American Indians. Our ongoing partnerships with several tribes indigineous to the Northwest Territory and the local park district help incorporate archaeological data into new narratives of settler colonialism’s cruel effects on American Indians.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• 2023 SHA Poster Submissions

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow