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tiliman2 · 8 months
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“U.S. people are taught that their military culture does not approve of or encourage targeting and killing civilians and know little or nothing about the nearly three centuries of war-fare-before and after the founding of the U.S.-that reduced the Indigenous peoples of the continent to a few reservations by burning their towns and fields and killing civilians, driving the refugees out--step by step--across the continent....Violence directed systematically against noncombatants through irregular means, from the start, has been a central part of Americans' way of war. “
Military Historian John Grenier
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unteriors · 2 months
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Broadway Street, Tecumseh, Nebraska.
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clove-pinks · 8 months
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A portrait of Chief Souligny of the Menominee (Wisconsin Historical Society). Undated, but credited to the English-born American artist Samuel Marsden Brookes (1816-1892).
I can't find any information about Souligny other than what the Wisconsin Historical Society provides: that he was named after his French great-grandfather, and he was an ally of Tecumseh who sided with the British in the War of 1812. He later changed his loyalty to the United States, and he is shown wearing a James Madison Peace Medal.
Yesterday I picked up Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens from the library. I'm currently reading the section in the book about the battle for Fort Meigs, which is eye-opening. But there's nothing in the book's index about Chief Souligny. Maybe he was a very minor figure in Tecumseh's confederacy, I don't know.
It's frustrating and it feels like a symbol of how hard it is to learn the specifics of Indigenous participation in the War of the 1812: and there was a lot of it, especially on what was then the northwestern frontier of the United States. Many First Nations allied with the British against the expansion of US settlements, and in many War of 1812 battles there are a substantial number of Indigenous warriors, who are sometimes in the majority with British regulars and USAmerican army or militia as the other forces.
There are yearly reenactments of the Siege of Prarie du Chien in the War of 1812, but if you look up pictures you won't see any Menominee, Ho-Chunk, or Meskwaki—who were the vast majority of participants. If they're present they never seem to be in the photos.
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Tecumseh, the Indian: His Majestic Poetry (Essay)
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This is a poem by Tecumseh at the end of the movie "Navy Seals".
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live a life free from the fear of death
don't undermine people's beliefs
Respect other people's ideas and ask them to respect yours
love life and live it to the fullest
Make everything beautiful
Try to live long and devote yourself to the people you care about
and when the time comes
Don't be a prisoner of the fear of death
I need more time
Don't be the one who laments that you want to start over with a different life
hum a hymn
Die like a hero returns
I think it's a majestic poem that doesn't defile the dignity. In a short poem, one vision of life is concentrated. He also has a clear view of life and death. Who can write a poem like this...?
Below, from wikipedia
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Tecumseh or Tecumtha (Tekamthi, 1768? – October 5, 1813) was an American Indian warrior or chief of the Shawnee tribe, and a symbol of the colonial resistance movement against the whites.
The only way to stop this evil, the invasion of the white men, is for the Indians to band together and claim common and equal rights to the land. Land was never divided before. It belongs to all of us Indians.
No Indian tribe has the right to sell land, even among the same tribe. Moreover, they absolutely do not have the right to sell to white people who have come from outside.
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The last few lines are from Tecumseh's speech.
Sociologist Max Weber, famous for ``Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism,'' read the Analects (Book on Confucius’s saying and deed) and said, ``This way of speaking resembles an Indian chief.'' … Well, from the European perspective, I think both are the same, with the underlying meaning that white people are free to control and persecute.
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sanurasdoodles · 1 month
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Chibi Practice
If you want to see more like this please support me at Subscribestar / Ko-Fi Last year I wanted to get some more practice drawing chibis, and at that time I was only having success drawing on paper. So I tried tricking me brain into thinking i was drawing on paper... it only sort of worked, but they came out cute. Please Enjoy! Art drawn by Me Art, and Characters belong to Hubby and I
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jmpphoto · 7 months
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Fawn in Stride by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Fawn in Stride White-tailed Deer Bishop Gardens Tecumseh, Michigan August 2023
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mysticusfreeze-art · 5 months
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Was inspired by drawfees latest episode of making cryptids for their home town. Based off the mascot ofna local festival
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blog-aventin-de · 6 months
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Tecumseh ⋆ Shawnee Häuptling ⋆ Leben und Legende
Tecumseh (1768 – 5. Oktober 1813) war ein Shawnee- Häuptling und Krieger, der gegen die Siedlungspolitik der Vereinigten Staaten auf dem Land der amerikanischen Ureinwohner Widerstand leistete. Indigene Geschichten besagen, dass Tecumseh nach einer Sternschnuppe benannt wurde, die bei seiner Geburt am Himmel erschien. Als überzeugender Redner reiste Tecumseh weit umher, gründete eine Konföderation der amerikanischen Ureinwohner und förderte die Einheit zwischen den Stämmen. Obwohl seine Bemühungen, die amerikanischen Ureinwohner zu vereinen mit seinem Tod endeten, wurde er zu einem ikonischen Volkshelden der amerikanischen, indigenen und kanadischen Volksgeschichte. Während Tecumseh am White River lebte, litten die amerikanischen Ureinwohner in der Region unter Krankheiten wie Alkoholismus, Armut, Landverlust, Entvölkerung und dem Niedergang ihrer traditionellen Lebensweise. Es traten zu dieser Zeit unter ihnen mehrere religiöse Propheten auf, die jeweils Erklärungen und Abhilfemaßnahmen für die Krise anboten. Unter diesen war auch Tecumsehs Bruder Lalawéthika, ein Heiler. Lalawéthika forderte seine Zuhörer auf, europäische Einflüsse abzulehnen, mit dem Alkoholkonsum aufzuhören und ihre traditionellen Medizintaschen wegzuwerfen. Tecumseh selbst folgte ebenfalls den Lehren seines Bruders, indem er nur einheimisches Essen aß, traditionelle Shawnee-Kleidung trug und keinen Alkohol trank. Tecumseh wurde im heutigen Ohio geboren, zu einer Zeit, als sich die weit verstreuten Shawnees in ihrer Ohio Country Heimat wiedervereinigten. Während seiner Kindheit verloren die Shawnees aber eine Reihe von Grenzkonflikten. Tecumsehs Vater wurde dabei 1774 im Kampf gegen amerikanische Kolonisten getötet. Tecumseh wurde danach von seinem älteren Bruder Cheeseekau betreut, einem bekannten Kriegshäuptling, der auch 1792 im Kampf gegen die Amerikaner starb. Als junger Kriegsführer schloss sich Tecumseh sodann dem Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket bewaffneten Kampf an, weitere Vorstöße von amerikanischen Siedlern zu verhindern. Im Jahr 1805 gründete Tecumsehs jüngerer Bruder Tenskwatawa, der als Shawnee-Prophet bekannt wurde, eine religiöse Bewegung, die die amerikanischen Ureinwohner aufforderte, europäische Einflüsse abzulehnen und zu einem traditionelleren Lebensstil zurückzukehren. Im Jahr 1808 gründeten Tecumseh und Tenskwatawa sodann den Ort Prophetstown, ein Dorf im heutigen Indiana, das sich zu einer großen, multistämmigen Gemeinschaft entwickelte. Tecumseh selbst reiste weiter ständig umher und verbreitete die Botschaft seines Bruders. Er verkündete, dass die amerikanischen Ureinwohner ihr Land gemeinsam besaßen, und forderte alle Stämme auf, kein Territorium mehr abzutreten, es sei denn, alle würden zustimmen. Seine Botschaft alarmierte sowohl amerikanische als auch einheimische Führer, die eine Einigung mit den Vereinigten Staaten suchten. Im Jahr 1811, als Tecumseh im Süden Verbündete rekrutierte, besiegten die Amerikaner unter William Henry Harrison Tenskwatawa in der Schlacht von Tippecanoe und zerstörten auch den Ort Prophetstown. Im Krieg von 1812 schloss sich Tecumseh, seiner Sache wegen, den Briten an, rekrutierte Krieger und half im August 1812 auch bei der Eroberung von Detroit. Tecumseh führte etwa 530 Krieger an. Einem Bericht zufolge ließ Tecumseh seine Männer wiederholt in einen Wald aus- und eingehen, nur um den Eindruck zu erwecken, dass sich Tausende von amerikanischen Ureinwohnern außerhalb der Festung befänden. Einer der berühmtesten Vorfälle in Tecumsehs Leben ereignete sich nach der Schlacht. Amerikanische Gefangene waren zu einer nahe gelegenen Ruine gebracht worden. Als eine Gruppe Indianer begannen, Gefangene zu töten, stürmte Tecumseh herbei und stoppte das Massaker. Durch diese Tat der Verteidigung der amerikanischen Gefangenen wurde Tecumseh schließlich zu einem Eckpfeiler seiner Legende, dem ultimativen Beweis seines angeborenen Adels, wie es hieß. Als die US-Seestreitkräfte 1813 endlich die Kontrolle über den Eriesee übernahmen, zog sich Tecumseh widerstrebend mit dem Heer der Briten nach Oberkanada zurück, wo sie am 5. Oktober 1813 in der Schlacht an der Themse besiegt wurden. Hierbei kam auch Tecumseh ums Leben. Sein Tod führte zum Zusammenbruch seiner Konföderation und die Ländereien, für deren Verteidigung er ein Leben lang gekämpft hatte, wurden an die US-Regierung abgetreten. Tecumseh schließlich ging als einer der berühmtesten amerikanischen Ureinwohner in die Geschichte ein und sein Vermächtnis steht bis heute.
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Tecumseh ⋆ Shawnee Häuptling ⋆ Leben und Legende - Tod Read the full article
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
-Tecumseh
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underground211 · 1 year
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Tecumseh
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tangerinefrictave · 10 months
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The massacre and exile of native nations in the USA was a long and excrutiating process. Here's what it was like when Indiana was the 'wild west' in 1807 and how Thomas Jefferson planned to just fuck everyone's shit up (in this context, everyone mostly being the Shawnee, the Potawatomi, the Miami, and the Lenape who had already been pushed out of their homeland on the Atlantic Coast).
"Our system is to live in perpetual peace with the Indians, to cultivate an affectionate attachment from them by everything just and liberal which we can do for them within the bounds of reason..."
So far so good, despite the qualification. But then:
"When they withdraw themselves to the culture of a small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to them are the extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off... in exchange for necessaries for their farms and families. To promote this... we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them in debt, because we observe that when these debts go beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cessation of lands...."
To this machiavellian scheme Jefferson appends a chilling warning. Should any tribe refuse the proffered hand and take up the hatchet, he says, it will be driven across the Mississippi and the whole of its lands confiscated.
It all fits neatly with [William Henry] Harrison's own ambitions, which include statehood for Indiana. To become a state the territory needs a population of at least sixty thousand, and there are fewer than half that number living in small settlements connected by trails cut through the jungle of the forest. To attract more people, Harrison requires the lure of cheap land. The Indians have the land. The Governor must secure it, one way or another.
From The Invasion of Canada, by Pierre Berton (1980)
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tiliman2 · 7 months
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From @JoeCrowShoe
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aryburn-trains · 1 year
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BNSF KCY-TOP-KCY by Sneebly Via Flickr: Tecumseh KS 2006 Christmas special December 9, 2006
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clove-pinks · 3 months
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Lately I have been thinking a lot about how the northwestern frontier of the War of 1812 is ultimately part of the Sixty Years' War for control of the Great Lakes region.
Settler colonial powers clashed with each other (with other overlapping conflicts like the Seven Years' War); and numerous First Nations/Indigenous people joined one side or another in a fight against genocidal removal and the loss of their culture. The frontier was already militarised before the War of 1812.
When he turned his attention to politics, General Harrison specifically emphasised his 1811 win over Tecumseh's confederacy ("Tippecanoe and Tyler too") where he destroyed the Indigenous community of Prophetstown—not his impressive role in the War of 1812 against the British at Fort Meigs.
In the introduction to his 1985 book Men of Patriotism, Courage & Enterprise! Fort Meigs in the War of 1812, Larry L. Nelson discusses his reliance on primary sources in the form of letters, diaries, and journals from the (settler) participants, and how this affects the interpretation of a complicated history:
The use of these primary sources, however, often serves to accentuate the underlying and widely held prejudices of the times. The unsympathetic treatment of the Native American is a case in point. Scorn for the Indian runs as a common thread throughout much of the writing of the period, and is inescapably found in some of the excerpts quoted in this work. For much of white North America during the period, the American Indian was the object of fear and hatred held in equal portion.
The United States already looks pretty Not Great in the long view of the War of 1812—all of our enslaved people constantly fleeing to the British, the bungled invasion of Upper Canada and the burning of York—and there's another dark legacy in the frontier warfare. No wonder the western parts of the United States were so eager for a war with Britain: because it was mainly a war for the expansion of settlement, and there was propaganda depicting the Indigenous population as allies of the British. The New England states wanted to avoid war and almost seceded from the US.
I feel sympathy for many of the defenders of Fort Meigs, particularly the ordinary enlisted men. I don't think they were monsters, even if they were fighting for their nation in a long campaign to break old treaties and expand settlement at the expense of violently displacing native people. The Fort Meigs museum did a nice job with the different perspectives on the conflict, although it's mostly the voices of the US military because they have all of the diaries and letters and other primary sources.
I only just learned that Tecumseh's verbal sketch of Henry Proctor as "a fat animal with its tail between its legs" was in Shawnee, not in English. Tecumseh was revered as an orator, but so few of his words seem to have been written down (that was one of my takeaways from Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation, by Peter Cozzens).
There are many challenges for me as a historian, but I am increasingly fascinated by the northwestern theatre of the War of 1812. (And now living there, getting to personally visit these military history sites).
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prairie-tales · 1 year
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Notes from National Geographic 'Atlas of Indian Nations', p. :
Notable cases of multi-tribal resistance:
The Ottawa chief Pontiac brought more than a dozen tribes together in 1763 and together they burnt down nine of eleven British forts.
Tecumseh was a Shawnee Chief who also brought tribes together to fight the European settlers, but he lost his life in battle.
In the Plains, the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapho often worked together against American invasion.
The Apache fought alone.
Resistance rarely did anything than buy a little time before the inevitable engulfment of European expansion.
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inlovewithquotes · 2 years
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
-Tecumseh
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