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Tecumseh   /təkˈəmsə/   Listen
Tecumseh

noun
1.
A famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813).  Synonym: Tecumtha.



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"Tecumseh" Quotes from Famous Books



... and always the white youth, Lennox, his comrade, was at his elbow in those days of his scholastic infancy to help him. It had been a great episode in the life of Tayoga, who had the intellect of a mighty chief, the mind of Pontiac or Thayendanegea, or Tecumseh, or Sequoia. He had forced himself to learn and in learning his books he had learned also to like the people of another race around him who were good to him and who helped him in the first hard days on the new road. So the young Onondaga felt an emotion much like that of Robert ...
— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler



Words linked to "Tecumseh" :   Shawnee



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