“Located next to cultivated fields by the Wabash River, Prophetstown was a thriving settlement with sixty lodges, a guesthouse, a large council house, and a medicine lodge. Two hundred bark-sided houses overlooked the river. Over the previous three years,1 a thousand warriors from a number of tribes had been attracted to the town by the teachings of its spiritual leader. While Tecumseh became the renowned warrior and political leader around whom a native confederacy coalesced, it was his bro...ther who fed it the spiritual and ideological sustenance that bound the movement together. Lalawethika soared in influence among the Shawnees and other tribes in the Ohio country by preaching the message that native peoples must return to their traditional ways, reject American ideas and material goods, and fight for their land. During the winter of 1774–75, Tecumseh’s mother, Methoataaskee, had given birth to triplets, all boys. One of the triplets died at birth.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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