Native Hero

Native Hero

There were many people involved in the American Revolution like Sam Adams and the
Sons of liberty, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington. But the most important person in the American Revolution is a Native American by the name of Ratonhnhake. He was a warrior during the American Revolution. Many don’t know of him because of the great hatred the British settlers had against Native Americans, refusing to include any natives in there writings which we use today. But the native Americans past it down through generations upon generations all the way to my uncles grandpa who told me all of the information about him along with some websites.

Ratonhnhake was in 1756 born to Haytham Kenway and Kaniehti making him a British
American. He grew up in his mother’s village in Kaneatahseton. While playing tag in the woods
With some friends he was attacked by a British solider by the name of Charles Lee a high ranking
British official. Even though he survived the incident with only a minor concussion he awoke to his village being burnt, he tried to save his mother but he could not, he vowed to find out who killed his mother and make them pay. But in order to do so he had be trained how to fight he went to a former assassins house whose name was Achilles who showed him how. In hope to blend in with the settlers, he used a fake name of Charles. He went on to Boston to talk to Sam Adams to see how he could aid in the revolution. (Lomasi Clearwater)

Sam Adams told him that they needed to destroy Johnson, a British tea merchant; he killed Johnson showing the begging of the American Revolution. When the new supply of tea arrived in Boston harbor, Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty tossed the tea into the ocean. They did this knowing that the merchants would not leave with a full ship. Ratonhnhake stood guard and killed any red coats who tried to intervene. Allowing the Boston Tea Party to take place. Also he played a role in the Boston Massacre he saw a man walk...

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