5 Medals: A Man & An Event
“Five Medals is two things. He is a person. It is a living history event. Five Medals was a prominent Potawatomi chief whose village was on the Elkhart River in Northern Indiana, south of present-day Goshen. He was deeply immersed into the rapidly changing world of NW Ohio and Northern Indiana from about 1790 through 1818. He was a peer to Mihšihkinaahkwa (Little Turtle), Buckongahelas, Blue Jacket, Tecumseh, Wahbememe (White Pigeon), Topinabee, and both of the Winamac’s who are constantly confused with each other.
…Five Medals, or Wonongaseah, had become a mere footnote to history and in 2009, two historians, one professional and one an amateur, resurrected his name and chose to use it to headline a new living history event. “
Quoted from https://reenactingschedule.org/five-medals-his-life-times/
