Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet | Page 2

and Joshua--governor Harrison's speech to
the Prophet to arrest these murderers--effort of Wells the U.S. Indian
agent to prevent Tecumseh and the Prophet from assembling the
Indians at Greenville--Tecumseh's speech in reply--he attends a council
at Chillicothe--speech on that occasion--council at
Springfield--Tecumseh principal speaker and actor

CHAPTER V.
Governor Harrison's address to the Shawanoe chiefs at Greenville--the
Prophet's reply--his influence felt among the remote tribes--he is visited
in 1808 by great numbers of Indians--Tecumseh and the Prophet
remove to Tippecanoe--the latter sends a speech to governor
Harrison--makes him a visit at Vincennes

CHAPTER VI.
Tecumseh visits the Wyandots--governor Harrison's letter about the

Prophet to the Secretary of War--British influence over the
Indians--Tecumseh burns governor Harrison's letter to the chiefs--great
alarm in Indiana, in consequence of the assemblage of the Indians at
Tippecanoe--death of Leatherlips, a Wyandot chief, on a charge of
witchcraft

CHAPTER VII.
Governor Harrison makes another effort to ascertain the designs of
Tecumseh and the Prophet--Tecumseh visits the governor at Vincennes,
attended by four hundred warriors--a council is held--Tecumseh
becomes deeply excited, and charges governor Harrison with
falsehood--council broken up in disorder--renewed the next day

CHAPTER VIII.
Alarm on the frontier continues--a Muskoe Indian killed at
Vincennes--governor Harrison sends a pacific speech to Tecumseh and
the Prophet--the former replies to it--in July Tecumseh visits governor
Harrison at Vincennes--disavows any intention of making war upon the
whites--explains his object in forming a union among the
tribes--governor Harrison's opinion of Tecumseh and the
Prophet--murder of the Deaf Chief--Tecumseh visits the southern
Indians

CHAPTER IX.
Governor Harrison applies to the War Department for troops to
maintain peace on the frontiers--battle of Tippecanoe on the 7th of
November--its influence on the Prophet and his followers

CHAPTER X.
Tecumseh returns from the south--proposes to visit the President, but
declines, because not permitted to go to Washington at the head of a
party--attends a council at fort Wayne--proceeds to Malden and joins
the British--governor Harrison's letter to the War Department relative
to the north-west tribes

CHAPTER XI.
Tecumseh participates in the battle of Brownstown--commands the
Indians in the action near Maguaga--present at Hull's
surrender--general Brock presents him his military sash--attack on
Chicago brought about by Tecumseh

CHAPTER XII.
Siege of fort Meigs--Tecumseh commands the Indians--acts with
intrepidity--rescues the American prisoners from the tomahawk and
scalping knife, after Dudley's defeat--reported agreement between
Proctor and Tecumseh, that general Harrison, if taken prisoner, should
be delivered to the latter to be burned

CHAPTER XIII.
Tecumseh present at the second attack on fort Meigs--his stratagem of a
sham-battle to draw out general Clay--is posted in the Black Swamp
with two thousand warriors at the time of the attack on fort
Stephenson--from thence passes by land to Malden--compels general
Proctor to release an American prisoner--threatens to desert the British
cause--urges an attack upon the American fleet--opposes Proctor's

retreat from Malden--delivers a speech to him on that occasion

CHAPTER XIV.
Retreat of the combined British and Indian army to the river
Thames--skirmish at Chatham with the troops under general
Harrison--Tecumseh slightly wounded in the arm--battle on the Thames
on the 5th of October--Tecumseh's death

CHAPTER XV.
Critical examination of the question "who killed Tecumseh?"--colonel
R.M. Johnson's claim considered

CHAPTER XVI.
Mr. Jefferson's opinion of the Prophet--brief sketch of his
character--anecdotes of Tecumseh--a review of the great principles of
his plan of union among the tribes--general summary of his life and
character

HISTORY
OF THE
SHAWANOE INDIANS.
There is a tradition among the Shawanoes, in regard to their origin,
which is said to be peculiar to that tribe. While most of the aborigines
of this country believe that their respective races came out of holes in
the earth at different places on this continent, the Shawanoes alone
claim, that their ancestors once inhabited a foreign land; but having
determined to leave it, they assembled their people and marched to the

sea shore. Here, under the guidance of a leader of the Turtle tribe, one
of their twelve original subdivisions, they walked into the sea, the
waters of which immediately parted, and they passed in safety along
the bottom of the ocean, until they reached this island.[A]
[Footnote A: History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by James
Hall and J. L. McKinney, a valuable work, containing one hundred and
twenty richly colored portraits of Indian chiefs.]
The Shawanoes have been known by different names. The Iroquois,
according to Colden's history of the "Five Nations," gave them the
appellation of Satanas. The Delawares, says Gallatin, in his synopsis of
the Indian tribes, call them Shawaneu, which means southern. The
French writers mention them under the name of Chaouanons; and
occasionally they are denominated Massawomees.
The orthography of the word by which they are generally designated, is
not very well settled. It has been