Peter Chartier (1690—c.1759) was a fur trader of mixed Shawnee and French parentage. Multilingual, he later became a leader and a band chief among the Pekowi Shawnee. As an early advocate for Native American civil rights, he joined other chiefs in opposing the sale and trade of alcohol in indigenous communities in the Province of Pennsylvania. He first tried to limit the sale of rum in Shawnee communities but expanded that effort to other indigenous peoples.
Historical marker in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, commemorating the life of Peter Chartier's father, Martin Chartier.
1722 woodcut of Native Americans with various western goods that they received in trade for furs.
Fur traders doing business with Native Americans in 1777, with a barrel of rum to the left.
Conference between French and Native American leaders around 1750, by Émile Louis Vernier
The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language.
The Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa (1775–1836), ca. 1820, portrait by Charles Bird King
Fort Ancient Monongahela cultures
Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio
Tecumseh, by Benson Lossing in 1848 based on 1808 drawing.
