Tecumseh

Also known as Shooting Star

Tecumseh ( ; March 9, 1768October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in battle during the War of 1812, he became a folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.

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Born: 8 Feb 1820
Died: 14 Feb 1891
Works: 53

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Address of General W.T. Sherman, to the gradating class of the Michigan Military Academy, at Orchard Lake, June 19, 1879
Two letters from General William Tecumseh Sherman to General Ulysses S. Grant & William T. McPherson
Address to the class of 1880, United States Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., April 28th, 1880
Paper read before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Words of Ages

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Active from: 2007-12-18

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The Evolution of Language
· 2010 · cited 568x

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Quotes

“One of my legs is shot off! But leave me one or two guns loaded — I am going to have a last shot. Be quick and go!”
“My heart is a stone: heavy with sadness for my people; cold with the knowledge that no treaty will keep whites out of our lands; hard with the determination to resist as long as I live and breathe. Now we are weak and many of our people are afraid. But hear me: a single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Someday I will embrace our brother tribes and draw them into a bundle and together we will win our country back from the whites.”
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers ... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? ... The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
“If there be one here tonight who believes that his rights will not sooner or later be taken from him by the avaricious American pale faces, his ignorance ought to excite pity, for he knows little of our common foe... Then listen to the voice of duty, of honor, of nature and of your endangered country. Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.”
“Brother, I wish you to give me close attention, because I think you do not clearly understand. I want to speak to you about promises that the Americans have made. You recall the time when the Jesus Indians of the Delawares lived near the Americans, and had confidence in their promises of friendship, and thought they were secure, yet the Americans murdered all the men, women, and children, even as they prayed to Jesus?”
“Now, Brother, everything I have said to you is the truth, as Weshemoneto has inspired me to speak only truth to you. I have declared myself freely to you about my intentions. And I want to know your intentions. I want to know what you are going to do about the taking of our land. I want to hear you say that you understand now, and will wipe out that pretended treaty, so that the tribes can be at peace with each other, as you pretend you want them to be. Tell me, brother. I want to know now.”

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Key facts

Native American leader.name: Tecumseh
Native American leader.image: Tecumseh02.jpg
Native American leader.caption: Painting of Tecumseh based on an 1808 sketch
Native American leader.alt: Tecumseh in red military uniform
Native American leader.tribe: Shawnee (Kispoko division, Panther clan)
Native American leader.birth_date: March 9, 1768
Native American leader.birth_place: Shawnee territory, Ohio Country(present-day Chillicothe, Ohio)
Native American leader.death_place: Moraviantown, Upper Canada
Native American leader.death_cause: Killed in the Battle of the Thames
Native American leader.battles: Northwest Indian WarWar of 1812

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Commons category: Tecumseh
date of death: 1813-10-05
date of birth: 1768-00-00

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Article

17 sections

Contents

Early life
From warrior to chief
Rise of the Prophet
Forming a confederacy
War of 1812
Brock and the Siege of Detroit
Fort Meigs
Death and aftermath
Tecumseh’s Cherokee Descendants
Legacy
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Sources
Further reading
External links

Tecumseh was born in what is now Ohio at a time when the far-flung Shawnees were reuniting in their Ohio Country homeland. During his childhood, the Shawnees lost territory to the expanding American colonies in a series of border conflicts. Tecumseh's father was killed in the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant. Tecumseh was thereafter taught by his older brother Cheeseekau, a noted war chief who died fighting Americans in 1792. As a young war leader, Tecumseh joined Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket's armed struggle against further American encroachment, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and with the loss of most of Ohio in the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.