Foiled Vengeance

By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray

Excitement ran high on the Delaware Reserve at Anderson’s Town July 24, 1833. Shawnuk, chief of the Delaware was preparing for war. Superintendent of Indian Affairs William Clark of Lewis & Clark fame, reported on the incident.

According to the report Shawnuk and 22 Delaware warriors left the town “on a War excursion against the Pawnees, to avenge the death of some Delawares killed by the Pawnees ...” Clark continued, “The party passed through the Kanza villages, the latter were to join them on the expedition.”

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