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Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation / Peter Cozzens.
"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524733254
- ISBN: 1524733253
- ISBN: 9780525434887
- ISBN: 0525434887
- Physical Description: xv, 537 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Tecumseh and the Prophet : The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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Tecumseh and the Prophet : The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
PETER COZZENS is the author or editor of sixteen acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the American Foreign Service Association's highest honor, the William R. Rivkin Award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.
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