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Jul 2, 1809:
Chief Tecumseh urges Indians to unite against whites
Alarmed by the growing encroachment of whites squatting on Native
American lands, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh calls on all Indians
to unite and resist.
Born around 1768 near Springfield, Ohio, Tecumseh early won
notice as a brave warrior. He fought in battles between the
Shawnee and the white Kentuckians, who were invading the Ohio
River Valley territory. After the Americans won several important
battles in the mid-1790s, Tecumseh reluctantly relocated westward
but remained an implacable foe of the white men and their ways.
By the early 19th century, many Shawnee and other Ohio Valley
Indians were becoming increasingly dependent on trading with the
Americans for guns, cloth, and metal goods. Tecumseh spoke out
against such dependence and called for a return to traditional
Indian ways. He was even more alarmed by the continuing
encroachment of white settlers illegally settling on the already
diminished government-recognized land holdings of the Shawnee and
other tribes. The American government, however, was reluctant to
take action against its own citizens to protect the rights of the
Ohio Valley Indians.
On this day in 1809, Tecumseh began a concerted campaign to
persuade the Indians of the Old Northwest and Deep South to unite
and resist. Together, Tecumseh argued, the various tribes had
enough strength to stop the whites from taking further land.
Heartened by this message of hope, Indians from as far away as
Florida and Minnesota heeded Tecumseh's call. By 1810, he had
organized the Ohio Valley Confederacy, which united Indians from
the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Menominee, Ottawa,
and Wyandot nations.
For several years, Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy successfully
delayed further white settlement in the region. In 1811, however,
the future president William Henry Harrison led an attack on the
confederacy's base on the Tippecanoe River. At the time, Tecumseh
was in the South attempting to convince more tribes to join his
movement. Although the battle of Tippecanoe was close, Harrison
finally won out and destroyed much of Tecumseh's army.
When the War of 1812 began the following year, Tecumseh
immediately marshaled what remained of his army to aid the
British. Commissioned a brigadier general, he proved an effective
ally and played a key role in the British capture of Detroit and
other battles. When the tide of war turned in the American favor,
Tecumseh's fortunes went down with those of the British. On
October 5, 1813, he was killed during Battle of the Thames. His
Ohio Valley Confederacy and vision of Indian unity died with him.
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