num_pages: 512
description: If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes that exted from the Ohio territory northeast to New York, south into the Florida peninsula, westward to Nebraska, and north into Canada.A warrior as well as a diplomat, the great Shawnee chief was a man of passionate ambitions. Spurred by commitment and served by a formidable battery of personal qualities that made him the principal organizer and the driving force of confederacy, Tecumseh kept the embers of resistence alive against a federal government that talked cooperation but practiced genocide following the Revolutionary War.Tecumseh does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. Despite his failed attempt at solidarity, he remains the ultimate symbol of eavor and courage, unity and fraternity.
language: English
title: Tecumseh: A Life
titlecomplete: Tecumseh: A Life
characters: Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh
genres: Biography, American, Canada, Native Americans, Nonfiction, American History, Military History, 19th Century, Military Fiction, History
ratings_count: 328
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: The Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.