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       Tecumseh and the Native American Resistance
       By: guest55 Date: August 15, 2021, 2:37 pm
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       Tecumseh and the Native American Resistance
       [quote]Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series
       continues with a video on Tecumseh - the leader of the Shawnee
       Native American Nation, his early life, rise to prominence, his
       initial war against the United States, creation of his
       confederacy, rise of his brother - the prophet Tenskwatawa, the
       Battle of Tippecanoe against the Americans and his participation
       in the War of 1812 and the battles of Detroit and Thames.
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-T2aY4DPY
       [quote]Tecumseh (/tɪˈkʌmsə,
       tɪˈkʌmsi/ ti-KUM-sə, ti-KUM-see); c. 1768 –
       October 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 inter-tribal
       unity. Although his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with
       his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in
       American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.
       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 battle against American
       colonists in 1774. Tecumseh was thereafter mentored 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 the loss of most of Ohio in the 1795
       Treaty of Greenville.
       In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be
       known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement,
       calling upon Native Americans to reject European influences and
       return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and
       Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day
       Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community.
       Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet's message
       and eclipsing his brother in prominence. He proclaimed that
       Native Americans owned their lands in common, and urged tribes
       not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message
       alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought
       accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was
       in the south recruiting allies, Americans under William Henry
       Harrison defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and
       destroyed Prophetstown.
       In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British,
       recruiting warriors and helping to capture Detroit in August
       1812. The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against
       the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces
       took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly
       retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American
       forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5,
       1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death caused his
       confederacy to collapse; the lands he had fought to defend were
       eventually ceded to the U.S. government. His legacy as one of
       the most celebrated Native Americans in history grew in the
       years after his death, although the details of his life have
       often been obscured by mythology. [/quote]
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
  HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Tecumseh02.jpg/800px-Tecumseh02.jpg
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