Tecumseh

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Tecumseh was in a very smart and brilliant Indian chief and leader of the Shawnee tribe. He was very smart when it came to how to get something to work and he was also a great fighter. His name Tecumseh means "panther lying in wait." He was a great man who did many memorable things through out his life.

__Tecumseh's Childhood__
Tecumseh was born in a Shawnee village Chalahgawtha near Springfield, Ohio around 1774. His father was killed by whites and is mother left him at 7 years old. He had a deepening hatred for whites from his mother and Chief Blackfish who adopted him. When he was fourteen he fought in the American Revolution with Blackfish and the British.

__**Beliefs**__
Tecumseh was against all grants or sales of land to settlers. He thought that no Indian had the right to buy or sell land even to each other. He believed that God gave land to the Indians to use not to own. He was against torture in war.

__Harrison's andTecumseh Treaty__
In 1809 General Harrison signed a treaty with several Indian tribe chiefs. The treaty was to buy 3 million acres for only $10,000 which was a very unfair price. This made Tecumseh very mad. He ask for Harrison to reverse the treaty in a trade that the Indians would become loyal allies with the US. Tecumseh knew that the US and Britian were going to go to war.

__**Red Stick Confederacy**__
Tecumseh organized the Indians to resist expansion and the organization was called the Red Stick Confederacy. Tecumseh's brother who was known because he had a vision of a prophet helped him attrack many Indian tribes to the Red Sticks. His brother was a poor leader and ordered a needless battle against Harrison. The battle was a bloody one and called the Battle of Tippercanoe.

__Conclusion__
Tecumseh was a great indian leader who did not believe that land should not be owned by any man. This belief put him at odds with the expansion of the United States. His leadership skills let him pull many tribes together to fight for his beliefs.

__References__
1) Shawnee Indian Chief and Leaders, [|www.accessgenealogy.com], April 13, 2009 []

2) Tecumseh, [|www.geoities.com], April 13, 2009 []

3) Tecumseh, [|www.pbs.org], April 13,2009 []