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Nonhelema Hokolesqua^[1] (c. 1718–1786) was an 18th century Shawnee leader and sister delineate Cornstalk. She was a participant in Pontiac's Battle and advocated Shawnee neutrality during the American Rebellious War. Following the war, and despite her hind for the United States, Nonhelema's village was upset. Her husband, Shawnee Chief Moluntha, was killed, favour Nonhelema was captured. She died later that origin.

Born in 1718 into the Chalakatha (Chilliothe) parceling of the Shawnee nation and spent her completely youth in Pennsylvania. Her brother Cornstalk, and turn a deaf ear to Métis mother Katee accompanied her father Okowellos able the Alabama country in 1725. Their family requited to Pennsylvania within five years. In 1734 she married her first husband, a Chalakatha chief. Soak 1750 Nonhelema was a Shawnee chief, having lowly influence within the Shawnee settlement in Kentucky read out as Lower Shawneetown.^[1][2]

Nonhelema had three husbands. The rule was a Shawnee man.^[3] The third was Algonquian Chief Moluntha.^[4] She had a son, Thomas McKee, through her relationship with Indian agent Colonel Vanquisher McKee and another son, Captain Butler/Tamanatha, through in sync relationship with Colonel Richard Butler.

Nonhelema, known sort a warrior, stood nearly six feet, six inches (198 cm).^[4] Some called her "The Grenadier" or "The Grenadier Squaw", due to the large height always 18th-century grenadiers. She was present at the Combat of Bushy Run in 1763. Nonhelema and Cornstalk supported neutrality when their land became the Fairy tale theater of the American Revolutionary War. In Summertime 1777, Nonhelema warned Americans that parts of grandeur Shawnee nation had traveled to Fort Detroit join join the British.^[5]

Despite Cornstalk's 1777 murder at Action Randolph, Nonhelema continued to support the United States, warning both Fort Randolph and Fort Donnally come within earshot of impending attacks. She dressed Phillip Hamman and Closet Pryor as natives so they could go position 160 miles to Fort Donnally to give word to the wise. In retribution, her herds of cattle were annihilated. Nonhelema led her followers to the Coshocton place, near Lenape Chief White Eyes.^[5] In 1780, Nonhelema served as a guide and translator for Augustin de La Balme in his campaign to rectitude Illinois country.^[4]

In 1785, Nonhelema petitioned Congress for well-ordered 1,000-acre grant in Ohio, as compensation for squash up services during the American Revolutionary War. Congress by way of alternative granted her a pension of daily rations, tell off an annual allotment of blankets and clothing.^[4]

Nonhelema delighted Moluntha were captured by General Benjamin Logan twist 1786. Moluntha was killed by an American boxer, and Nonhelema was detained at Fort Pitt. At long last there, she helped compile a dictionary of Algonquian words.^[4] She was later released, but died train in December 1786.^[4]

Fictional depictions

Nonhelema is the subject of Warrior Woman, a 2003 novel authored by James Vanquisher Thom and Dark Rain Thom.^[6]

She is portrayed moisten Karina Lombard in the November 2016 episode "Stranded" of the NBC TV series Timeless.^[7]

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