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Tenskwatawa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa, Lalawethika, the Prophet, the Shawnee Prophet, Ellskwatawa
Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into a spiritual leader.
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Key facts
- Writer.name
- Tenskwatawa
- Writer.image
- Ten-sqúat-a-way.jpg
- Writer.birth_date
- January 1775
- Writer.birth_place
- Ohio Country
- Writer.death_date
- November 1836
- Writer.death_place
- Shawnee Reservation (modern day Argentine, Kansas, U.S.)
- Writer.resting_place
- Near White Feather Spring, Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
- Writer.relatives
- Tecumseh (brother) Cheeseekau (brother)
- Writer.nationality
- Shawnee
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ohio
- Place of death
- Kansas
- Sibling
- Tecumseh
- Occupation
- traditional leader or chief
- Image
- Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa.jpg
- Significant event
- posthumous birth
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- Commons category
- Tenskwatawa
- date of birth
- 1775-01-00
- date of death
- 1836-11-00
- place of burial
- Kansas
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- tribe
- Shawnee
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Early life and family
- Purification movement leader
- Greenville and Prophetstown founder
- War with the United States
- Later years
- Death and legacy
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into a spiritual leader.
In the early 1800s, Tenskwatawa formed a community with his followers near Greenville in western Ohio, and in 1808 he and Tecumseh established a village that the Americans called Prophetstown north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana. At Prophetstown, the brothers' Pan-American Indian resistance movement increased to include thousands of followers, and Tenskwatawa provided the spiritual foundation. Together, they mobilized the Indigenous American Nations in the Northwest Territory to fight settlers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tenskwatawa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.