A Shawnee chief and an American general sat on a bench at the end of a bitter and explosive council. The Indian kept edging down his length until the general reached the end. When he protested he was about to be shoved off, the Indian smiled grimly.
"That is what the white man is doing to the Indian," Tecumseh told General William Henry Harrison.

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[Tecumseh's] younger brother was originally called Lalawethika (a rough Shawnee translation meaning a rattle or a similar instrument). He earlier chenged it to Ten-skwa-ta-wa-skwate (from the Shawnee skwate, a door, and thenui, to be opened).

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Tecumseh refused to touch alcohol but his brother, Tenskwatawa, was a boasting, swaggering drunk. He had lost an eye as a child and wore a handkerchief over the empty socket, which gave him the appearance of a Corsican pirate. Suddenly in 1805, when a religious mania swept the frontier, he found religion and became a mystic.

The Prophet was transformed from a drunk into a wandering preacher and foe of the white man's poison water. He was a powerful orator, and the intensity of his message began to reach the tribes. But his words were those of Tecumseh: the Indians must abandon the life of the white man and return to the ways of their fathers.

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