Ourehouare

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Ourehouare
Died1698 (1699)
Nationality Cayuga people
Other names
  • Our eau hare
  • Orehaoue
  • Hore Houasse
  • Goiguenha
  • Taweeratt
Known forA tribal leader of the Cayuga people

Ourehouare (died 1698) was a native American leader of the Cayuga people. [1]

Ourehouare had helped prevent the purchase of Susquehanna lands by William Penn. [2] The Cayugas had moved from what is now the Finger Lake region of Northern New York State to the present Prince Edward County area in Ontario prior to 1673. In 1687 the French Governor was de Denonville. France had control of the western fur trade but the Iroquois confederacy, which included the Cayugas, contested the western fur trade with the help of the English. De Champigny captured a group of Cayugas and lured another group into the fort, where they were all imprisoned. [1] Peré captured Ourehouare and several others and these prisoners were added to the rest. The 51 Cayugas were stripped, tied to stakes, tortured and shipped to France. This caused an outbreak of warfare in that area of New France for over 10 years. As a result, King Louis XIV returned the captives in 1689, and replaced de Denonville with Louis de Buade de Frontenac.

Frontenac came to New France with Ourehouare and 13 other Cayuga men, all of which had survived two years of slavery aboard the king's warships. Frontenac and Ourehouare became fast and powerful friends. He acted as the governor's ambassador in several attempts at reconciliation with the Iroquois and participated in retaliatory raids. [1] Having a Cayuga ally changed the face of the war and resulted in peace.[ citation needed ]

Ourehouare died in 1698. [1] He was buried with full military honours. Had the elevation of war continued, it would have bankrupted New France and may have led to the abandonment of the colony which would have changed the course of North American history. There would have been an Indian power base allied to the English north of the future New England. At the time the French area of control included the Mississippi and Ohio valleys which may have stayed under Indian control. The potential impact on history would be myriad and effects the very existence of the American colonies.[ citation needed ]

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References

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  2. Gilles Havard (2001). Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century . McGill-Queen's Press. p.  55. ISBN   9780773569348 . Retrieved 2017-10-26. Ourehouare cayuga.