Tecumseh: War Chief

Tecumseh’s Speech to the Osages, which he is believed to have given to his fellow Native Americans around 1811, is extremely powerful and passionate. What makes his speech powerful is the fact that it is his response to the events carried out by the colonists toward the Native Americans, which included the stealing of their land and the killing of their people. This clearly has a large impact on Tecumseh and the audience, which is evident throughout the speech.

After the Barbary wars were over in 1806, American sailors were often under threat of being impressed by the British men of war to support their navy during the Napoleonic Wars. This caused much outrage throughout all of America. Another cause of increased tensions was the increased frequency of conflicts between the white settlers in western lands with the Native Americans. Many of the indians would go to British Canada or Spanish Florida to seek assistance in fighting against the Americans. The British were especially happy to assist inirectly at the very least. The convergence of many of the indian tribes under Tecumseh united the Americans in the northern and southern frontiers into a group known as the War Hawks that were unified in defense of their values and the western expansion of the United States. It was at this point that the idea of

Tecumseh’s biggest concerns were that his people would not live according to the Prophet which was casting off all elements of the Euro-American society. He believed that his people would turn to alcohol, firearms, and trade goods set out by English ways, which was what the Prophet said, would be detrimental to their ways. No matter what, Tecumseh was going to make sure the Indian way of life would continue forever. He led a revolution of young men who thought the leadership structure needed to be looked over again in order to survive. They fought to make sure The Indians East of the Mississippi to keep control over their home land. Tecumseh tried to visit neighboring tribes to form an alliance to protect the lands held by the Natives. He was successful in the way the Southern tribes would accept the alliance, but unsuccessful with others when some refused to join the reliance, such as the Iroquois tribe.

Tecumseh’s father was very important in his life because his father was killed at the Battle of Port Pleasant during the French and Indian War which sparked his mom, Methoataske, leaving her children. Not only depressed from  her husband's death, but frightened by the impending American Revolution, she left her children with Tecumseh’s elder married sister,Tecumpease, and elder brother Chicksika. They moved to the Sha*-wnee tribe, where Chicksika had taught Tecumseh to be a hunter and warrior. When Chicksika was killed in an unsuccessful attack in Tennessee Tecumseh continued raiding white settlements till he finally returned home in 1790.

Tecumseh attempted to ally with many tribes, but did not have much success. Tecumseh has read many treaties, but he never signed one (Greenspan). He also made treaties and messages to tribes and governor Harrison. Tecumseh spoke to the Alabama creek Indians and allied with them (Tucker). Many tribes that he tried to join rejected him (Tucker). He allied with the British and pro British Indians to fight the Americans (Fixico). More than two dozen native nations participated

The Battle of Tippecanoe was one of the major steps towards the War of 1812. It took place on November 8, 1811, in a clearing near Prophet’s Town. It was also perhaps one of the most controversial battles in the War of 1812. Although a peace treaty had been made one day prior before the Battle of Tippecanoe, the Native Americans attacked, which caused the American soldiers to fight back, who were led by General William Henry Harrison. The Native Americans had been led by Tecumseh, a Shawnee Indian Chief. The Battle of Tippecanoe was a controversial battle which the Natives Americans started, and ultimately, lost.

The battle occurred as a result of tensions between the confederacy of Native Americans and the United States government. The confederacy of Native Americans was upset by the United States’ cessations of territories previously occupied by Native American tribes. Though both sides lost less than 100 troops, the Battle of Tippecanoe is a decisive point in United States history because it reinforced the rising tension with Great Britain, who many Americans saw as Tecumseh’s puppeteer. This view contributed to a declaration of war only a few months later. Furthermore, Governor Harrison later used the Battle of Tippecanoe as a mark of his success in his presidential campaign.

When the War of 1812 began on June 18, the Shawnee decided to side and fight with the British in Canada (West). After Tecumseh preachings spread across the nation, the number of Shawnee followers increased dramatically, and Tecumseh’s support changed the balance of power during the war. His first goal was to stop the Europeans and get them to stay out of the lives of Native Americans permanently. Tecumseh believed this would only be possible if they formed an alliance with Great Britain. With the thought that the United States would only spread further west in the future, Tecumseh formed an alliance with Sir Isaac Brock, the general commanding the British Army during the war. They were both brave, aggressive and savvy, and became friends instantly. Tecumseh believed that the British would allow the Shawnee and other indian tribes to keep the land they had roamed for centuries, while the Americans would not allow them to have land or power. The death of Tecumseh in the War of 1812 was a major turning point in the United States and the War of 1812. While in Procter, Canada, Tecumseh and his Indian warriors were preparing for battle alongside the British forces. The battle took place in a marshy setting, the Americans were led by General William Henry Harrison. Tecumseh was shot through the heart and died on the battlefield at Thames. Before the start of the war, Tecumseh and the Shawnee dreamed of a Pan-Indian confederation that spread across the lands of North

Tecumseh died on October 5, 1813 at the Battle of Thames. He was killed at the age of 45. He was a political leader and war chief for the Shawnee Indians. He fought in the War of 1812 to stop westward expansion of white settlers into native lands. He was born in Old Piqua, Ohio in 1768. His father, Puckeshinwa, died at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. His mother, Methoataske, migrated to Missouri with other Shawnees. Tecumseh was raised by his older sister, Tecumpease. He raided frontier settlements with his older brother, Chiksika. He raided more settlements up to the Treaty of Greenville, in 1795. By 1800 he was a prominent war chief among the natives. Later one of his brothers, Tenskwatawa, became a religious leader among the Shawnee

They were convincingly successful in the battles of the Great Lakes. Early on, they took control of Lake Ontario which posed the opportunity to invade and destroy York, the capital of Canada. As a result, America was able to also take control of Lake Erie with the help of a young man by the name of Oliver Hazard Perry. On September 10, 1813, Oliver disseminated a British fleet at Put-in Bay, which was the motivating force in gaining control of Lake Erie. Later in the year of 1813, Tecumseh, a general in the British army was killed by forces that attacked via the Thames River. This particular incident later became known as The Battle of the

Sherman was born on Feb. 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio. His father died when he was 9 years old. Most of the 11 children in the family were

The War of 1812 was a war fought between the United States and Great Britain. Participants in the War of 1812 also included Canada, Ireland, and Native Americans. Most Native Americans sided with the British, believing that if the British won the war, that Americans would stop expanding west and encroaching on Native American land. Two brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskatawa, also known as the Prophet, fought for the British and lead Native Americans into battle. The majority of the world viewed this war, not as a separate war, but as continuing conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. The United States viewed the War of 1812 as a second war with the British and a repeated fight for independence. The fronts, on which the war was raged, included battles at

Tecumseh slowly transformed his brother's religious following into a political movement. In 1808 Tecumseh and the Prophet moved their village to the juncture of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers, where the new settlement, Prophetstown, continued to attract Indians. After the loss of much Indian land at the Treaty of Fort Wayne, Tecumseh gradually eclipsed his brother as the primary leader of the movement. He traveled throughout the Midwest urging tribes to form a political confederacy to prevent any further erosion of their lands. In November 1811, while Tecumseh was in the South attempting to recruit the Creeks into his confederacy, U.S. forces marched against Prophetstown. In the subsequent Battle of the Tippecanoe they defeated the Prophet, burned the settlement, and destroyed the Indians' food supplies. After returning from the South Tecumseh tried to rebuild his shattered confederacy. But when the War of 1812 broke out, he withdrew to Michigan where he assisted the British in the capture of Detroit and led pro-British Indians in small actions in southern Michigan and northern Ohio (Fort Meigs). When William Henry Harrison invaded Upper Canada, Tecumseh reluctantly accompanied the British retreat. He was killed by American forces at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813. Although they never found the body of

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Tecumsen and Tenskwatawa – Calling for a return to traditional Native American practices, these brothers created a powerful pan-indian military movement and eventually allied with the British in order to stop Anglo-American expansion