Tecumseh
Tecumseh was born into the bloody and brutal mess of American westward expansion. An early biographer describes him this way.
“The implicit obedience and respect which the followers of Tecumseh pay to him, is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory Mexico or Peru.
Drake, Benjamin. Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians (Kindle Locations 2002-2005). . Kindle Edition.
He would go on to organize what became known as Tecumseh’s Confederacy where the remnants of many tribes dispossessed by American imperial expansion would organize together to bargain collectively and try to resist the insatiable appetite for “free land” of the European settlers.
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