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Hace 5 días · About 1808 Tecumseh settled in the area of present-day Indiana with his brother Tenskwatawa, called “the Prophet” because he claimed to have had a revelation from the “Master of Life.”
Hace 4 días · Tenskwatawa, perhaps suspecting that Harrison intended to attack the village, decided to risk a preemptive strike, sending out his warriors against the American encampment. In the Battle of Tippecanoe, fought before the dawn of the next day, Harrison's men held their ground, and the Indians withdrew from the village after the battle.
Hace 3 días · Red Jacket (c. 1755–1830) was a Seneca chief and a rival of Cornplanter (c.1745–1807). His skills lay more in diplomacy than warfare. Though he fought for the British during the American Revolution, he sought to avoid combat, earning him a reputation as a coward among some of his fellow Indians. On one occasion he killed a cow and smeared its blood on his tomahawk to convince the ...
Hace 5 días · Tenskwatawa This Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum card features a portrait of Tenskwatawa (1775-1936), a Shawnee religious leader also known as The Open Door. He was brother to Tecumseh who organized a failed Native resistance movement, and was defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe located in Indiana.
Hace 1 día · 2 Tenskwatawa emerged as a tribal leader in the early 1800’s as the most prominent Shawnee witch hunter. The death of important native leader of Lenape Chief Buckongahelas in mid-1805, probably from smallpox or influenza, triggered rumors that witchcraft was responsible for the great leader’s death and triggering a witch-hunt that resulted in the death of several suspected tribal witches.
Hace 5 días · They are more properly called “raising-up movements,” because after Neolin the key point of such movements was that if living Indians returned to their customary ways, all Indians who had died since the advent of European invasion would be “raised up,” or resurrected (See Speech of Tenskwatawa).
Hace 2 días · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
