Tecumseh Research Paper

With the Confederation almost complete, forwarded Shawnee decision to send Tecumseh, a young renowned warrior and a strong speaker ‘to traverse the Miscopy Valley, seeking to revive Neolin’s pan Indian alliance of the 1760s. Feeling that the only alternative to westward expansion was extermination, as one chief asked “Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? ‘They have vanished before the avarice {greed) and oppression of the white man, as snow before the sun.’ Indians, he proclaimed, must recognize that they were a single people and equal right in the land. He repudiated, “chiefs who had sold land to the federal government were no better than their white rivals.”

“The following year, American representatives demanded and received large surrenders of Indian land north of the Ohio River.” And, now completely
And, in 1813, Pan-Indian forces led by Tecumseh who had been commissioned a general in the British army were defeated, and he himself was killed, at the Battle of the Thames, near Detroit, by an American force led by William Henry Harrison, interestingly enough, it said that ‘Colonel Richard M. Johnson, who claimed to have actually killed Tecumseh, would later be elected vice president.’ This event had such an impact on the spirit and heart of the Shawnee communities that it would seem broken for the next decade, bringing back the era of constant migration, little food and forest protection that started in 1750s and like the Nomadic Hebrews in Mesopotamia, the Shawnee Indians faced many internal and external threats. Whether it had been harsh weather or disease, internal threats or infliction, the same feeling was met when imperialist countries invaded, altering rooted accustoms, traditions and trade. While, enduring unthinkable challenges in which they learned to overcome, like the seed of