ive him a good mark for that. Now he frowned upon liquor.
With Captain William Wells, his friend, he appeared before the Kentucky
legislature, and asked for a law against selling liquor to the Indians.
In the winter of 1801-1802 he asked to be vaccinated, at Washington,
and took some of the vaccine back with him, for his people.

He frequently visited Philadelphia. There he met the famous Polish
patriot Kosciusko. They had many talks. Kosciusko presented him with
a fine pair of pistols and a valuable otter-skin robe.

Chief Little Turtle died July 14, 1812, while on a visit at Fort Wayne.
The notice in a newspaper said:

"Perhaps there is not left on this continent, one of his color so
distinguished in council and in war. His disorder was the gout. He
died in a camp, because he chose to be in the open air. He met death
with great firmness. The agent for Indian affairs had him buried with
the honors of war."

His portrait, painted by a celebrated artist, was hung upon the walls
of the War Department at Washington.

CHAPTER XII

THE VOICE FROM THE OPEN DOOR (1805-1811)

HOW IT TRAVELED THROUGH THE LAND

In the battle of the Fallen Timbers, when General "Big Wind" broke the
back of the Ohio nations, two young warriors fought against each other.

One was Lieutenant William Henry Harrison, aged twenty-one, of the
Americans. The other was Sub-chief Tecumseh, aged twenty-six, of the
Shawnees.

They were the sons of noted fathers. Benjamin Harrison, the father of
Lieutenant Harrison, had been a famous patriot and a signer of the
Declaration of Independence in 1776. Puck-ee-shin-wah, the father of
Tecumseh, also had been a patriot--he had died for his nation in the
battle of Point Pleasant, in 1774, when Chief Cornstalk fought for
liberty.

At the Fallen Timbers, Lieutenant Harrison was an aide to General
Wayne; young Tecumseh was an aide to Blue-jacket. The two did not
meet, but their trails were soon to join.

The name Tecumseh (pronounced by the Indians "Tay-coom-tha") means
"One-who-springs" or "darts." It was a word of the Shawnees' Great
Medicine Panther clan, or Meteor clan; therefore Tecumseh has been
known as "Crouching Panther" and "Shooting Star."

He was born in 1768 at the old Shawnee village of Piqua, on Mad River
about six miles southwest of present Springfield, Ohio. His mother may
have been a Creek or Cherokee woman, who had come up from the South
with some of the Shawnees.