Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Walk-in-the-Water

WALK-IN-THE-WATER, or MY-EE-RAH, Indian chief, d. about 1817. He was a Huron of the Wyandot tribe, and at the beginning of the war of 1812 offered his services to Gen. William Hull; but they were declined, owing to the unwillingness of that officer to employ savages. He was afterward forced by circumstances to join the British at Malden, but he was instrumental in persuading several tribes to remain neutral, and in a council at that place he vindicated his course in a speech that was called by his enemies “American talk.” After this Walk-in-the-Water and his associates, openly breaking with Tecumseh and the Prophet, declined to remain with the British, and deserted from Gen. Henry Proctor at Chatham, Canada. At the battle of the Thames he offered his services, with those of sixty warriors, conditionally, to Gen. William Henry Harrison, who declined them, and the Indians returned to Detroit river.