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Hey sports fans,
It’s the ninth Tuesday in ordinary time, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.
Today’s the anniversary of a memorable moment in American history, from all the way back in 1763, when native tribes in the American midwest had banded together to fight a little revolution of their own, working to expel British forts from the Great Lakes region.
Most of that was inspired by a Native American religious revival underway in the 1760s, mostly because of preaching from a Lenni Lenape man named Neolin, who said he’d been given a vision calling native people to reject alcohol, polygamy, greed, and the adoption of European culture as their own.
The military side was organized by an Odawa war chief named Pontiac, whose rebellion eventually won a proclamation that prohibited new British settlements in the land west of the Mississippi.
For his troubles, Pontiac was eventually assassinated by a rival tribe warrior, and became namesake for the automobile brand which dared to create ignominious, timelessly ugly Pontiac Aztek.
But well before that, Pontiac inspired a pan-Indian raft of sorties and sieges against British strongholds, capturing several forts, and putting the British on their heels in the upper Midwest.
One of the early efforts
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