He died at the end of an epoch, the grandest the western Indians were to know.
Benton was originally founded by the western Indians who came to make use of its hot springs.
He directed production of two-dozen tribal histories for Western Indians.
This was the same route taken by General Clinton in 1779 in the expedition against the western Indians.
Thirty-one years later, Zeisberger, apostle of the western Indians, heard his name mentioned among them with deep respect.
Purpose struck him on a visit to Philadelphia, when he saw a visiting delegation of Western Indians in all their tribal finery.
President George Washington appointed him as brigadier general in the United States Army for the 1790 campaign against the western Indians.
This was not a proper fur trading post but rather a kind of general store that made it easier for the western Indians to reach James Bay.
The old Indian portage path was part of the ancient boundary between the Six Nations and the Western Indians.
His policy toward Western Indians anticipated the assimilationist program of the Dawes Act of 1887.