The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 8, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 1, 1903 Page: 6 of 32
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228 THE INDIAN ADVOCATE.
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Tecumseh t
BY .TAMES MOONIGY. f
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This great chief of the Shawnee and commander of the al-
lied northern tribes in the British service was born near
the present Chillicothe in western Ohio about 1770 and
fell in the battle of the Thames in Ontario October 5 1813.
His name signifies a "flying panther" i. e. a meteor. He
came of fighting stock good even in a tribe distinguished foi
its warlike qualities his father and elder brother having
been killed in battle with the whites. His mother is said to
have died among the Cherokee. Tecumseh is first heard of
as taking part in an engagement with the Kentuckians when
about twenty years old and in a few years he had secured re-
cognition as the ablest leader among the allied tribes. It is
said that he took part in every important engagement with
the Americans from the time of Harmar's defeat in 1790 until
the battle in which he lost his life. When about thirty years
of age he conceived the idea of uniting the tribes northwest
of the Ohio as Pontiac had uuited them before in a great
confederacy to resist the further advance of the Americans
taking the stand that the whole territory between the Ohio
and the Mississippi belonged to all these tribes in common
and that no one tribe had the right to sell any one portion of
it without the consent of the others. The refusal of the
government to admit this principle led him to take active
steps to unite the tribes upon that basis in which he was
seconded by his' brother the Prophet who supplemented
Tecumseh's eloquence with his own claims to supernatural
revelation. In the summer of 1810 Tecumseh held a con-
ference with Governor Harrison at Vincennes to protest
against a recent treaty cession and finding after exhausting
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