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Chief Tenskwatawa
(1811-1846)
Warriors Citation
Among the best-known and most feared Native Americans of the nineteenth century, the Prophet and his brother, Tecumseh, were
Shawnee leaders of a fervent movement to instill Indian unity in the Ohio Valley from 1805 through the War of 1812. Angered
by the Jefferson administration's attempts to gain Native American lands through piecemeal cessions, the Prophet preached
resistance.
He also rejected Jeffersonian suggestions about Native American assimilation, and urged instead that Native Americans retain
their own culture. By 1811 his resistance movement had led to sporadic warfare in the Old Northwest. But in November of that
year, William Henry Harrison routed the Prophet and his allies near Tippecanoe in the Indiana Territory. The destruction of
this Native American confederacy effectively opened the Ohio River Valley to white settlement. From: historical accounts &
records
LINK TO BRAVEHORSE WARRIORS VOLUME TWO
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