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This 5 page report discusses the 18th and early 19th century Shawnee leader who attempted to create a “pan-Indian” coalition that could work as a confederation of mutual support and defense in order to protect the lands and indigenous peoples against the white pioneers moving west across the Appalachian mountains. In terms of the question of whether or not Tecumseh’s “war” could possibly have been won, the writer of this report argues that it could not. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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politician. By "international," it is important to understand that the nations in question were his own Shawnee, the Miami, the Potawatomi and other nations of the Great Lakes and Ohio
Valley region. He was certain he could convince them to join together in what would be a confederation of mutual support and defense in order to protect the lands and
indigenous peoples against the white pioneers moving west across the Appalachian mountains. Obviously, he was not successful and was killed in hand-to-hand combat at the Thames River approximately two miles
from Moraviantown in Ontario. The question that comes to mind for history students in the 21st century regarding Tecumseh is whether or not he ever had any real chance
of uniting the indigenous nations of North America and, if not stopping, at least slowing the expansion of white men into the West. The answer, in a word, would have
to be a simple "no." A Visionary According to Eckert in A Sorrow in Our Heart, the night that Tecumseh was born and his father and brother awaited his
birth, a "huge brilliant meteor streak[ed] across the heavens from the north, passing over them in greenish-white incandescence" (pp. 40). According to who Eckert has his characters refer to
as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passing over to the south, seeking a great hole for sleep ... It was
a very good sign" (pp. 40). Supposedly it had barely passed by when the cry of a newborn baby was heard. Although tradition held that the child not be named
for at least ten days, Pucksinwah, the father of the baby, broke with tradition since "there could be no other name for this boy child more significant than The Panther
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