Last week, we started discussing Victor Lauriston’s article in Kentiana entitled “Tecumseh.”

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Chief Tecumseh had three brothers and one of them was even more famous than the Shawnee chief — until the last few years of Tecumseh’s life.

The famous brother had three names: Lalawethika was his given name; Tenkswatawa was the name he assumed after a life-changing experience; and the Prophet was what the Americans and the British called him.

It was Tenkswatawa to whom many other Indigenous peoples flocked after 1805 when he had a dream in which Waasshaa Monetoo, or the Great Spirit, came to him. In this dream he was told to clean up his own act and help others to do the same.

Before that, Lalawethika often drank to excess and was dissolute in his ways. But he changed overnight, to the astonishment of those who knew him, and soon he was preaching the necessity of throwing off the contaminating ways of the white man, and returning to nativist roots.

Tenkswatawa’s........

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