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In addition to tackling controversial historical events, it employs some risky storytelling techniques, including the re-enactment of prephotographic events, such as Tecumseh's efforts to establish an independent Indian state.
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As I outline in considerable detail in The American Empire and the Fourth World, my country retained its sovereignty because a strategic alliance between Great Britain and the very effective fighting forces of Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy repelled the US Armed Force's invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. [ii]
The Lies and Crimes of 911: A Canadian View of the War on Terror's Origins 2008
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Elizabeth's son Joshua, who was about five years old, was taken to Piqua and raised by Tecumseh's parents.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Though, luckily for me his fascination with all things Tecumseh came after my birth, as he once told me that given the chance he would have made my middle name Tecumapese, in the spirit of Tecumseh's sister.
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Indian resistance crumbled after Tecumseh's death in 1813.
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Many tribes in Tecumseh's alliance fought against the Americans in the War of 1812.
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Dowd shows how cunning British diplomacy exploited divisions among the tribes to stem the uprising, but the contest for the lands from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi wasn't really decided until the United States crushed Tecumseh's pan-tribal uprising in 1813.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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Dowd shows how cunning British diplomacy exploited divisions among the tribes to stem the uprising, but the contest for the lands from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi wasn't really decided until the United States crushed Tecumseh's pan-tribal uprising in 1813.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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As they look back, they saw the soldiers thick as swarm of bees around where Tecumseh was sitting on the ground with his broken leg, and so they did not see him any more; and, therefore, we always believe that the Indians or Americans know not who made the fatal shot on Tecumseh's leg, or what the soldiers did with him when they came up to him as he was sitting on the ground.
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird
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Shawanee prophet, "Waw-wo-yaw-ge-she-maw," who was one of Tecumseh's own brothers, sent his emissaries to preach to the Ottawas and
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird
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