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The Native Americans became involved in the conflict of 1812  to secure British support against the US.  The Native Americans led by Tecumseh, lost against the US in the battle of Thames in October 1813.  The Native Americans suffered great losses and could never again find external allies or threaten to roll back the American frontier.

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“The history of the role of the First Nations... in the War of 1812 is just as much about building what would later become the nation of Canada as it is about the solidifying of Canadian identity ....”

— The War of 1812: The Dakota Nation’s Contribution to Defending Canada, published by the Whitecap Dakota First Nation, June 2011

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Fort Mackinac was the start of war, where the native Americans joined the British and Canadians by taking over the American outpost in Mississippi, Fort Mackinac.

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The spiked war club was a weapon used by the Native Americans close combat battle.

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Chief Oshawana was a future chief of Anishnaabe during 1812 and was a young warrior who fought int he war of 1812.

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The 1814 chiefs medal was a medal given from The British to an allied leader in 1814. Britain kept these alliances as long as the Native Americans remained military assets.

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Muscogee mystic Hillis Hadjo (Josiah Francis) was a  prominent Red Stick leader in the war of 1812. In 1815 he tried to make a formal alliance with the crown and failed.

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The battle of Thames and Horseshoe Bend was a marked the end of any positive outcome for the Native Americans from the war of 1812.
That was the last time Native Americans went to war with a powerful European ally to defend there native land.  Many Native Americans died during that war but the biggest loss they suffered was the loss of their leader Tecumseh.  He remains a Native American hero to this day who personifies intertribal unity, humanity in war, and military leadership to his people.