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Tecumseh (March 1768 – October 5, 1813), also known as Tecumtha or Tekamthi, was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. He grew up in what the British-American colonists called the Ohio country during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, where he was constantly exposed to warfare.[1]
After difficult years as a young man who suffered alcoholism, his younger brother Tenskwatawa became a religious leader. Known as "The Prophet", he advocated a return of the Shawnee and other American Indians to their ancestral lifestyle and rejection of the colonists and Americans.

He attracted a large following among Indians who had already suffered major epidemics and dispossession of their lands. With Americans continuing to encroach on Indian territory after the British ceded the Ohio Valley to the new United States, the Shawnee moved further into the northwest and in 1808 settled Prophetstown in present-day Indiana. Tecumseh met with Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison to demand the recission of land purchase treaties the US had forced on the Shawnee and other tribes. With a vision of establishing an independent American Indian nation east of the Mississippi, Tecumseh worked to recruit tribes to the confederacy from the southern United States.[1] While he was traveling, Tenskwatawa went to war with confederacy warriors although much outnumbered by an attack by Harrison and his forces, and was defeated in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe.
During the War of 1812, Tecumseh and his confederacy allied with the British in Canada and helped in the capture of Fort Detroit. They sought British support for continuing to defend their lands against the Americans. Harrison led a much larger counter assault and invaded Canada. The British faded away before his forces, but Tecumseh and the outnumbered Shawnee Confederacy fought on. Tecumseh was killed in the Battle of the Thames. Tecumseh has become an icon and heroic figure in American Indian and Canadian history; he is remembered as a hero by many Canadians for his defense of the country

When Tecumseh was a boy, his father Puckeshinwawas was brutally murdered by white frontiersmen who had crossed onto Indian land in violation of a recent treaty, at the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774. Tecumseh resolved to become a warrior like his father and to be "a fire spreading over the hill and valley, consuming the race of dark souls."[4]
Tecumseh's mother was Methoataske (or Methoataaskee, meaning "[One who] Lays Eggs in the Sand"), who was believed to be either Muscogee Creek, Cherokee, or Shawnee, possibly of the Pekowi division and the Turtle Clan[5][6]
At age 15,after the American Revolutionary War, Tecumseh joined a band of Shawnee who were determined to stop the white invasion of their lands by attacking settlers' flatboats traveling down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania. In time, Tecumseh became the leader of his own band of warriors. For a while, these Indian raids were so effective that river traffic virtually ceased.[4]