46 Simon Girty the White Savage

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Simon Girty was a man larger than life. To Americans he was a vile traitor who killed the innocent with his savage friends. To the British he was a rough drunk but a useful tool. To the Iroquois and other Ohio Nations he was a prodigal son who was raised as a Brave and then returned to fight for his adopted people's freedom.

NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA BY THOMAS JEFFERSON

GUYASUTA AND THE FALL OF INDIAN AMERICA BY BRADY J. CRYTZER

SIMON GIRTY - WILDERNESS WARRIOR BY EDWARD BUTTS

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	Ava, Ava, Ava, Ava, Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. This is Andrew. And Caleb's here too.
0:32.0	And welcome to our 46th episode. And today we're going to be covering Simon Gertie, or as he was also known, the White Savage.
0:41.0	We mentioned a few episodes back, Simon Gertie's name. I think we also mentioned that he's been
0:47.5	literally everywhere throughout this series, but we haven't been able to really focus on him because
0:52.4	this guy is so much larger than life that he
0:56.0	would kind of suck up the whole story anytime we try to mention him it's hard to separate the man
1:00.4	from the myth i'll say because so much was written about him after his death or even while he
1:06.2	was alive that was just purely propaganda and fictitious so it was really difficult to know the real man.
1:13.1	Luckily, today, we have a lot of resources. We can really see a lot more of the personality of
1:18.1	Simon Gertie than we could have in the past. Now, Simon Gertie, throughout American history,
1:23.4	has always been portrayed as an evil villain.
1:29.9	Yeah, he was always a villain in every story.
1:33.9	We're going to let you guys decide if he was a villain or not.
1:38.3	So, when we're doing a biography on somebody, where do they usually start, Caleb?
1:40.1	Normally they start at their birth.
1:42.6	Or actually their parents' birth a lot of the time.
1:45.0	Well, we're just going to start at his birth. Simon Gertie was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1741, and his father came to America
1:52.0	in the 1730s.
1:54.0	They were Irish descendants, and most likely their name was Mick Gertie.
1:58.0	Simon's father was a prominent trader in the Pennsylvania area, and he became
2:03.5	very well respected among the different Native American tribes because he ran a fair and honest
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