The American Indian Tecumseh (ca. 1768-1813), Shawnee chief, originated and led an Indian confederation against the encroaching white settlers in the old Northwest Territory. He was an ally of the British during the War of 1812. According to tribal...

Tecumseh Born 1768 (Old Piqua, Ohio) Died October 5, 1813 (Chatham, Ontario, Canada) Shawnee tribal leader Tecumseh was one of the greatest and most trusted leaders of the Shawnee nation. He aggressively resisted American settlement and influence in...

Born 1768 Chalahgawtha (an Indian village near Springfield, Ohio) Died 1813 Near the Thames River, Ontario, Canada Warrior and tribal leader...

TECUMSEH (1768–1813) or Tecumtha ("Shooting Star," the celestial panther), a Kispoko Shawnee born near the Mad River in western Ohio, devoted his life to intertribal movements resisting American expansionism and its devastating...

Tecumseh (c.1768? - October 5, 1813), whose given name might be more accurately rendered as Tecumtha or Tekamthi, was a famous Shawnee leader. He spent much of his life attempting to rally disparate Native American tribes in a mutual defense of their...

Newcomb, Steven Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 10-22-2003 October 5, 2003 marked 190 years since the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh was killed in battle fighting American troops during the War of 1812. Tecumseh died on the river Thames not far from present day...

Sugden, John Tecumseh: A Life New York: Henry Holt 512 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8050-4138-9 Publication Date: May 1998 Tecumseh: A Life is a monumental book about an extraordinary man. After three decades of research at various European and North American archives, private...

Teenage sisters had to be rescued Tuesday from a car stalled in bumper-deep water rushing over a flooded road in a residential area of the city.Streams overflowed in many parts of Oklahoma on Tuesday, blocking roads and flooding several homes and businesses.Television news video showed...

A Michigan man, seeking to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq, has confessed to axing a 22-year-old Dutch student to death after failing to find a soldier to kill, his lawyer said Tuesday.Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., confessed to...

Tecumseh and the prophet were two Native Americans, which were responsible for uniting many Indian tribes to fight against Harrison and the expansion westward. The name of the prophet was Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh's brother.