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| name = Tecumseh
| image = Tecumseh02.jpg
| caption = Painting of Tecumseh based on an
| alt = Tecumseh in red military uniform
| birth_date = {{circa|1768}}
| birth_place = Likely near present-day [[Chillicothe, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date = October 5,
| death_place = [[Delaware Nation at Moraviantown|Moraviantown]], [[Upper Canada]]
| death_cause = Killed in the [[Battle of the Thames]]
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'''Tecumseh''' ({{IPAc-en|t|ɪ|ˈ|k|ʌ|m|s|ə|,_|-|s|i}} {{respell|tih|KUM|sə|,_|-|see}}; {{circa|1768}}{{snd}}October 5, 1813) was a [[Shawnee]] chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the [[Territorial evolution of the United States|expansion of the United States]] onto [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a [[Tecumseh's confederacy|Native American confederacy]] and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the [[War of 1812]], he became an iconic [[folk hero]] in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.
Tecumseh was born in what is now Ohio at a time when the far-flung Shawnees were reuniting in their [[Ohio Country]] homeland. During his childhood, the Shawnees lost territory to the expanding [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] in a series of border conflicts. Tecumseh's father was killed in [[Battle of Point Pleasant |battle against American colonists]] in 1774. Tecumseh was thereafter mentored by his older brother [[Cheeseekau]], a noted war chief who died fighting Americans in 1792. As a young war leader, Tecumseh joined Shawnee Chief [[Blue Jacket]]'s armed struggle against further American encroachment, which ended in defeat at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in 1794 and with the loss of most of Ohio in the 1795 [[Treaty of Greenville]].
In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother [[Tenskwatawa]], who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established [[Prophetstown State Park|Prophetstown]], a village in present-day [[Indiana]], that grew into a large, multi-tribal community. Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet's message and eclipsing his brother in prominence. Tecumseh proclaimed that Native Americans owned their lands in common and urged tribes not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was in the South recruiting allies, Americans under [[William Henry Harrison]] defeated Tenskwatawa at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] and destroyed Prophetstown.
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