Tecumseh’ name means two different things. It means crouching Panther, or a shooting star. I like his name because it depicts how brave he was. He was born in 1768 on Mad River in Springfield, Ohio. He died in 1813 in the battle of Thames. Tecumseh (also known as Tecumthe) was the leader of an Indian confederacy, and prior to his death, Tecumseh wielded more power than any other North American Indian before him, and no other Indian after him would ever come close to his domination. He was a great warrior and the chief of the Sh

The poem has six stanzas in all and thirty lines in total. There is no pattern and there is a varied amount of line per stanza. The poem is in a free verse with no rhyme pattern. As mentioned before, the sensory image is visual, with a lot of color. This is a powerful poem of heroism, sadness, sacrifice and defeat. I relate to this poem in a very special way because my ancestors suffered in the same manner. I am privileged to have read about Tecumseh and the Shawnees. History is precious and it is never to be forgotten. It must be passed down from generation to generation and taught to our children.

Before the birth of Tecumseh, the Miami, whose territory stretched from Pennsylvania southward to the Ohio River and northwards to the great lakes, realized that the Americans posed a likely problem. They decided to create a defense or barrier zone between them and the Americans and they invited the Shawnees to permanently settle in the area north of the Ohio River. For the first time ever the Shawnees had a homeland. However, their roaming heritage led them to continue wandering about from time to time, but the majority of them remained in the area north of the Ohio River. Tecumseh believed in honesty, hard work and the fact that no one person should control the needs of the many. He also did not believe in torture and vowed that no one would or should torture anyone in his presence. He refused to speak in English, preferring his native Shawnee language. Tecumseh simply wanted to stop the encroachment of the white man into Indian land

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