First edition.

xv, 537 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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

Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813.

Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet.

Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Biography.

Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

Shawnee Indians -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Shawnee Indians -- Wars -- United States.

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815.

Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.

Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813.

Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Indians of North America -- Wars.

Shawnee Indians.

Shawnee Indians -- Wars.

United States.

1700-1899

Biographies.

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