Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa. The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh, a highly respected Indian leader, and Tenskwatawa (originally named Lalawethika), a religious visionary, led the most widespread and coordinated Native American resistance against the advancing white settlers and armies in the history of the United States.

Tenskwatawa's teachings spread rapidly, not only among the Shawnee, but also among other tribes, to the great dismay of white missionaries. Despite his insistence on traditional values, Tenskwatawa was an outspoken critic of traditional shamanism and magic, and led witch hunts against people suspected of practicing these customs.

May 29, 2018 · Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet (1775?-1836). Sources. Religious mystic. The Old Northwest. By the end of the eighteenth century the Old Northwest, defined as the Great Lakes region west of Pittsburgh and north of the Ohio River, was home to a number of Eastern Woodland tribes, many of whom had already been decimated by disease and warfare and …

May 29, 2018 · Tenskwatawa, the Prophet Meanwhile, another member of Tecumseh's family was making a name for himself. Tecumseh's brother Laulewasika (1775-1836) was an unpopular figure who—like many Native Americans who had adopted, to varying degrees, white ways—was addicted to alcohol.

In 1808 Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa again relocated their village, this time to the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers, which became known as Prophetstown. Tecumseh clashed with Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison (1773 – 1841) over the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne , which ceded yet more traditional lands.

The Southeastern Indians (Choctaws and Creeks) rejected Tecumseh's call for unity, and he returned to burned-down Prophetstown. Tenskwatawa fled with other Shawnees to the west, and Tecumseh was killed by Harrison's forces in 1813. During this time, a movement influenced by Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh emerged among the Muscogees in the Southeast.

May 21, 2018 · From the start, antagonism existed between Prophetstown, the pan-Indian nativist community established in 1808 by the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa and his brother, the war chief Tecumseh, at Tippecanoe Creek in Indiana, and the territorial government at Vincennes led by Governor William Henry Harrison.

Tenskwatawa leaves Greenville, in western Ohio, and moves with his followers to Prophetstown, or Tippecanoe, a site offered to him by the Kickapoos and Potawatomis. 1809 Thomas Campbell withdraws from the Presbyterians and forms the nondenominational Christian Association of Washington ( Pennsylvania ).

As in the 1790s, the effort to create an Indian confederacy ended in war. In 1811 an army led by William Henry Harrison marched against Prophets-town, Tenskwatawa's village, while Tecumseh was away. In the Battle of Tippecanoe, the prophet's followers ambushed the Americans as they camped near the village; but Harrison's troops drove the ...

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