Coocoochee

[1] She was born in a village near Montreal but lived most of her life in the remote North American Ohio Country among the Shawnee led by the war chief Blue Jacket.

Due to the wars - and ongoing attacks and forced removals by Europeans - she and her family, including the two toddler aged children, had to flee their home, and walked 700 miles central Ohio.

In Ohio they lived on the west bank of the Scioto River in a town led by Blue Jacket, a Shawnee war chief.

[5] Multiple times throughout her life, she and her family were forced to flee due to encroachment and attacks by American and British colonists.

[1][3] Coocoochee advocated for resistance against the attacks, encroachment, and forced removals carried out by Americans and Europeans against Indigenous people.