A quiet Indiana city declared a holiday to celebrate its founder. In the age of Trump, nothing is ever that simple.
as they forded the Maumee River from the future foot of Harmer Street. The survivors of “Harmar’s Defeat” retreated in disarray.
Hines, the council member who first raised objections to Arp’s Wayne Day resolution, grew up near the park at Harmer Street and told me he played football with friends by the statue of Wayne. The way their parents told the story, Wayne was called “Mad Anthony” because he was “vicious”—one of the era’s “typical white racist folks, who came into Native American lands to kill and steal and destroy.
“There’s no win on this one,” Flohr wrote back. “If it failed, you all would have gotten dragged for not supporting history. But passing it is bringing up these points. No win.”Gardner later told me that he had been stewing about Wayne Day since first hearing about it, seeing it as a “bully” move that, in his view, seemed to reflect the same toxic racial animus behind 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Left: General ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne. Right: Chief Little Turtle of the Miami tribe. | Wikimedia Commons and Getty Images , known in English as Sweet Breeze, it gave the boat her name. But the Miami recoiled from the linkage to their historical trauma. It was not true, Gardner explained, that the British had been on the verge of capturing Washington when Wayne and his men overran Stony Point. And he pointed out that the resolution also botched a basic fact about Midwestern history by claiming that Wayne established Fort Recovery after the Battle of Fallen Timbers when the outpost was built and manned months before.
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