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Title: Tecumseh
A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol.
17 of Chronicles of Canada

Author: Ethel T. Raymond

Release Date: January 3, 2008 [EBook #24147]

Language: English

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CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes

Volume 17

TECUMSEH
A Chronicle of the last Great Leader of his People

By ETHEL T. RAYMOND
TORONTO, 1915

CONTENTS

I. THE BOYHOOD OF TECUMSEH
II. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE
III. A LEADER AMONG HIS PEOPLE
IV. THE PROPHET
V. A GIFTED ORATOR
VI. THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE
VII. UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG
VIII. FIGHTING ON AMERICAN SOIL
IX. THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE
X. TECUMSEH'S LAST FIGHT
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

CHAPTER I

THE BOYHOOD OF TECUMSEH

Three Indian figures stand out in bold relief on the background of
Canadian history--the figures of Pontiac, Brant, and Tecumseh. The
Ottawa chief Pontiac was the friend of the French, and, when the
French suffered defeat, he plotted and fought to drive the English
from the Indian country. Brant, the Mohawk, took the king's side
against the Americans in the War of Independence, and finally led
his defeated people to Canada that they might have homes on British
soil. And Tecumseh threw in his lot with the British in the War of
1812 and gave his life in their service. But, while Pontiac fought
for the French and Brant and Tecumseh for the British, it was for
the lost cause of their own people that all three were really
fighting; and it was for this that they spent themselves in vain.

Tecumseh, whose story we are to tell in this volume, sprang from
the Shawnees, an energetic and warlike tribe of Algonquian stock.
The Algonquins, whose tribal branches were scattered from Labrador
to the Rockies and from Hudson Bay to North Carolina, believed that
a deity presided over each of the four cardinal points of the
compass. Shawan was the guardian spirit of the South; and,