SHAWNEE PROPHET

1775?–1837?, Native North American of the Shawnee tribe; brother of Tecumseh. His Native American name was Tenskwautawa. He announced himself as a prophet bearing a revelation from the Native American master of life. The message urged the renunciation of the acquired ways of the whites and the return to Native American modes and customs in all matters. His doctrines were widespread among Native Americans, and his prestige was enhanced when he foretold a solar eclipse in 1806. His influence gave rise to the plan to confederate all the Native Americans in opposition to the whites—a plan that inspired the Creek War of 1813. In 1811 he led the Native American forces in the battle of Tippecanoe. The movement inspired by him provided many recuits for the British in the War of 1812, after which Tenskwatawa retired to Canada with a British pension. He returned to Ohio in 1826 and accompanied his people to Missouri and farther west into Kansas, where he died.

See B. Drake, The Life of Tecumseh and of his Brother the Prophet (1841, repr. 1969).

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books on: Shawnee Prophet  - 178 results

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The Shawnee Prophet
Book by R. David Edmunds; University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Wars--1750-1815, Shawnee Indians--Biography, Shawnee Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Shawnee Indians--Wars--1750-1815, Tecumseh--Shawnee Chief--1768-1813, Tenskwatawa--Shawnee Prophet
...15. Ibid.; Speech of the Shawnee Prophet, November 20, 1814, ibid...82; Speech of the Shawnee Prophet, Winter, 1814, ibid...his wife may have been the Prophets niece. See Tucker, Tecumseh...Speech by the Shawnee Prophet, November 8, 1815, Record...
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Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Book by John Sugden; University of Nebraska Press, 2000
Subjects: Blue Jacket--B. Ca. 1752, Shawnee Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Shawnee Indians--Wars
...Abraham Luckenbach, 1808, Shawnee File; William Kirk to Dearborn...123. For Lalaw6thika, the Shawnee Prophet, see Edmunds, Shawnee Prophet; Dowd, Spivitec...Kenton Papers, 7BB49. 5. For Shawnees and missionaries, see Olmstead...
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Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Book by Alfred A. Cave; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Indians Of North America--East (U.S.)--Religion, Indians Of North America--East (U.S.)--Rites And Ceremonies, Prophets--United States
...the Wabash, 117. 4. Edmunds, Shawnee Prophet, 50; Esarey, Messages and Letters...Potawatomis, 165. 6. Edmunds, Shawnee Prophet, 50. 7. Talk Delivered...under Heauen, 272-73; Edmunds, Shawnee Prophet, 51-52; Sugden, Tecumseh...
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Tecumseh: Vision of Glory
Book by Glenn Tucker; Bobbs-Merrill, 1956
Subjects: Tecumseh--Shawnee Chief--1768-1813
...brother did the pleading, but the Shawnee who remained did so because of...word was received that the aged Shawnee prophet Penagashega, or Change of Feathers...come to hear his voice. Now the Shawnee were without a prophet--and...
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Tecumseh and Other Stories of the Ohio River Valley by Julia L. Dumont
Book by Julia L. Dumont, Sandra Parker; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Fiction, Ohio River Valley--Social Life And Customs--Fiction, Shawnee Indians--Fiction, Tecumseh--Shawnee Chief--1768-1813--Fiction
...associates, successfully published the first biography of this mythical Indian leader The Life of Tecumseh and of His Brother the Prophet 1840 . Dumonts manuscript about Tecumseh never appeared in its entirety and, according to her great-granddaughter, was...
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Shawnee Convergence: Immigrant Indians in the Ozarks
Journal article by George E. Lankford; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 58, 1999
Subjects: History, Native Americans, Ozark Mountains, Shawnee Tribe, Territorial issues
...of one group of the Shawnees in the Ozarks was the...was kin to the great Shawnee leader: Tecumseh and the Prophet were said to be twin...purchase what remained of Shawnee lands in Ohio and have...spiritual leader, the Prophet, who was already living...and wished to see the Shawnees move west of the Mississippi...Hoof and other Ohio Shawnee chiefs considered Lewis...
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Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Journal article by James Fisher; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 27, 2001
Subjects: Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (Book), Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. by James Fisher John...Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. Lincoln: University...important than this Shawnee warrior. Blue Jacket...fears of the Shawnee Prophets religious movement...a stout defender of Shawnee tradition and land...nativistic movement of the Prophet. Blue Jacket instinctively...who knew that for the Shawnees to survive and flourish...
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"He Is Worst Than the [Shawnee
Journal article by Mark J. Wagner; Vol. 31, 2006
...1806 to 1810 when the Shawnee Prophet began identifying acculturated...burned to death by the Prophets followers including...Native Americans who the Prophet had identified as witches...found listening to the Shawnee Prophet to be a "deeply moving...between the dogma of the Prophets religion and its actual...
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The Shawnee Indians: an Annotated Bibliography
Journal article by Bradley J. Birzer; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 94, 2002
...the various Indian wars and Shawnee removal; 4) removal and...for R. David Edmundss The Shawnee Prophet, for example, Noe writes...removal, then settled with the Shawnees in Kansas, but wholly without...the settlement of loyalist Shawnee, Kickapoo, and Sac Indians...
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Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Journal article by Alfred Cave; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 94, 2001
...Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees by Alfred Cave Blue jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. By John Sugden (Lincoln...American expansionism, the Shawnee war leader Blue jacket was...relationship to the Shawnee Prophet. Alone among prominent Shawnee...Jacket gave his support to the Prophet and his brother Tecumseh...federal annuities for the Prophets community at Greenville...
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The Zero-Year Curse - Might Tragedy Befall the President?
Magazine article by William S. Connery; World and I, Vol. 16, June 2001
Subjects: Blessing and cursing--Political aspects, Harrison, William Henry--Behavior, Presidents (Government)--Myths and legends, Presidents--Myths and legends, Tecumseh--Practice, United States--Myths and legends
...Tecumseh was chief of the Shawnees, Tenskwatawa was not...become known as the Shawnee Prophet after receiving a revelation...men approached the Shawnee capital of Prophets Town in 1811. In Tecumsehs...broke the power of the Shawnees and became known historically...suspect because the Prophet is variously reported...
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Integrating American History before the 20th Century into the World History Curriculum
Magazine article by Carl Guarneri; Social Studies Review, Vol. 49, Spring 2010
Subjects: Aliens, American history, Core curriculum, Economic development, Social studies education, United States
...and settlement. Finally, studying indigenous movements such as the Indian and Taiping rebellions, the American Shawnee Prophet, and Islamic Revitalization movements in Africa and the Middle East can show how native and colonized peoples resisted...
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Army History in November
Magazine article by Raymond K. Bluhm Jr.; Soldiers, Vol. 59, November 2004
Subjects: Military air strikes, Military deployment, Military history
...In the Battle of Ttppecanoe, Ind., on Nov. 7, the 4th Infantry Regiment and Kentucky militia defeat Shawnee warriors led by the Prophet, Tecumsehs brother. 1863 - Soldiers of the Army of the Ohio under MG George Thomas push past their objectives...
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W.e.b. Du Bois: the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
Magazine article by David Levering Lewis; The New Crisis, Vol. 108, January 2001
Subjects: Biographies, Blacks, Du Bois, W E B, Equality, History
...senator Arthur Capper interceding with the governor, and a Shawnee County attorney acting as Hills lawyer, the sympathetic Kansas...as the editor fulfilled his unique role as propagandist and prophet, there were changes under way both in the NAACP and the colored...
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Letters
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, October 2000
...ethical standards. Faulkner Larry Levingers article "The Prophet Faulkner" (June Atlantic) unfairly suggests that Faulkner...Gable," Faulkner retorted. "What do you do?" Brian Smith Shawnee, Kans. I was quite taken by Larry Levingers portrait of William...
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'Break' Return a Bust
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2009
Subjects: Klum, Heidi
...American Indians continues with a segment titled Tecumsehs Vision, which recalls Shawnee brothers Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh. In 1805, Tenskwatawa - considered a prophet - had a vision that Indians should reject white culture. Tecumseh, in turn...
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How American Indians Fought British after France Left
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 1, 2002
Subjects: Automobile industry, Pontiac Div.
...and dismissive terms in addressing native leaders, what one Shawnee called "evil speech," was a purposeful move to establish...role, both as motive and strategy. Among the Delawares the prophet Neolin told of a vision in which he visited the Master of Life...


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encyclopedia articles on: Shawnee Prophet  - 10 results

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Shawnee Prophet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHAWNEE PROPHET 1775? 1837?, Native North American of the Shawnee tribe; brother of Tecumseh . His Native American name was Tenskwautawa. He announced himself as a prophet bearing a revelation from the Native American master...
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Shawnee , Indigenous People of North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...their reunion in Ohio the warlike Shawnee participated in almost every war...move to Indiana. About 1800 the Shawnee Prophet (Tenskwatawa) arose. He and...the battle of Tippecanoe . The Shawnee were thereafter moved to Missouri...
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Prophet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...religious practices. Frequently prophets were connected with their military leaders, such as the Delaware Prophet with Pontiac , and the Shawnee Prophet with his brother, Tecumseh . Two later prophets of renown were Smohalla and Wovoka...
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Delaware Prophet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DELAWARE PROPHET , fl. 18th cent., Native American...1763 66) the cult of the Delaware Prophet waned and was largely superseded by that of the Munsee Prophet, who was in turn succeeded by the Shawnee Prophet...
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Indian Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...American lands in Indiana, provoking the Shawnee chief, Tecumseh , and his brother, the Shawnee Prophet , to organize a powerful native confederacy...1811, William H. Harrison defeated the Shawnee Prophet at Tippecanoe . Tecumseh allied...
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