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God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War

Bil Gilbert

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#2002 of 3,809 books · #705 in History

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1989).

In the forefront of this account is Tekamthi (often remembered as Tecumseh), the brilliant Shawnee warrior, orator, and political strategist, long renowned as the most astute and able of the red leaders. In the early 1800s he became convinced that his people could defend themselves against the United States only by forming a single racial federation. From a base at Tippecanoe in Indiana, he traveled between the Great Lakes and Gulf Coast, recruiting supporters. Though there were fewer than 100,000 free reds in these territories versus the 7 million whites of the United States, the westward advance of Manifest Destiny was slowed, in large part, by the formidable reputation and charismatic influence of Tekamthi.

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Publisher
Atheneum Books
Genre
History
Topics
Native American resistanceTecumseh and Shawnee confederacyWestward expansion

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