Tobacco's Son

Tobacco's Son was a great Piankashaw Indian Chief who resided in a village near Vincennes. He was also sometime called "The Grand Door to the Wabash,” indicating his great influence in the area. While originally Tobacco's Son had supported the British, Helm gifts’s and Clark’s letter of introduction swayed him to the American side. Clark later remembered Tobacco's Son as “a zealous friend to the day of his death.”