Tenskwatawa Quotes

the white man. Women should farm as they always had; men should be hunters and warriors. There must be no mixed marriages. Tenskwatawa’s scorn embraced not only Harrison and Jefferson but also “wicked chiefs” such as Little Turtle, intermediaries such as Wells, and all accommodationists.

Harrison’s steady push of land cession treaties culminated in the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809. By working with the most malleable chiefs first, depending on support from Wells and Little Turtle, and breaking open 218 gallons of whiskey, Harrison won 2.5 million acres of land in the Wabash region. The grateful members of the Indiana Territorial Legislature resolved that the young governor should have a fourth term. Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh condemned the treaty as an act of robbery and talked with the British about an alliance. More young warriors congregated at Prophetstown. Old

The threat of an uprising steadily mounted after 1805, when a Shawnee spiritual leader, Tenskwatawa (better known as the Prophet), launched a religious movement that called for rejecting of the white man’s ways.