| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 537 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Dawn of the long knives -- The great awakening -- A restless people -- A turbulent youth -- A nation divided -- War and wanderings -- Out from the shadows -- The making of a chief -- A culture in crisis -- A Prophet arises -- Black sun -- Greenville interlude -- A double game -- One treaty too many -- No difficulties deter him -- Southern odyssey -- The Prophet stumbles -- From the ashes of Prophetstown -- Into the maelstrom -- Kindred spirits -- A man of mercy -- An adequate sacrifice to Indian opinion -- Death on the Thames -- Twilight of the prophet -- Appendix: The Indian world of the Shawnee brothers. |
| Summary |
"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. Cozzens shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader-- admired by the same white Americans he opposed-- it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. -- adapted from jacket |
| Subject |
Shawnee Indians -- Wars.
(OCoLC)fst01115396
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Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813. (OCoLC)fst00050540
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Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet. (OCoLC)fst00112723
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Shawnee Indians. (OCoLC)fst01115386
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Shawnee Indians -- Wars -- United States.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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| Subject |
Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst00969761
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Wars.
(OCoLC)fst00969954
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Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet.
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815.
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Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899
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| Subject |
Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cozzens, Peter, Tecumseh and the prophet New York : Knopf, 2020. 9781524733261 (DLC) 2019052437 |
| ISBN |
9781524733254 (hardback) |
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1524733253 (hardback) |
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9780525434887 (paperback) |
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0525434887 (paperback) |
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9781524733261 (epub) |
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