... of Choctaws and Chickasaws. During Tecumseh's travels to the south, Harrison took advantage of his absence and decided to attack Prophetstown, the town where most of Tecumseh's followers lived. In the ensuing battle, The Battle of Tippecanoe, the Prophet led the Indians in a major defeat. This was a major blow to the Indian movement and many of the followers blamed the Prophet. Soon after the battle, a lot of them returned to their ... and his people struggle with white men over the rights to land long inhabited by the Indians. I thought Edmunds opened the book quite well with a brief h...

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