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was so happy that she would soon throw it back and laugh with 

 the others. 



In a few days came a party from the Arickarees, and the 

 wounded young man was one of them, asking for peace. The 

 story was told then, how No-Heart had taken in the young man 

 and brought him to life again, and when they heard it many 

 women prayed the gods to be good to her and give her and her 

 man long life. Peace between the two tribes was then declared, 

 and there was much rejoicing. — ("My Life as an Indian"; 

 Schultz; "The Story of No-Heart," pp. 230-238.) 



TECUMSEH 



Of all the figures in the light of Indian history, that of 

 Tecumseh, or Tecum tha the "Leaping Panther," the war 

 chief of the Shawnees, stands out perhaps highest and best 

 as the ideal, noble Redman.. 



His father was chief of the tribe. Tecumseh was born in 

 1768 at Piqua Indian Village, near the site of Springfield, 

 Ohio, Of all the Indians, the Shawnees had been most 

 energetic and farseeing in their opposition to the encroach- 

 ments of the whites. But the flood of invasion was too 

 strong for them. The old chief fell, battling for home and 

 people, at Point Pleasant, in 1774. His eldest son followed 

 the father's footsteps, and the second met death in a hope- 

 less fight with Wayne in 1794, leaving young Tecimiseh 

 war chief of his tribe. At once he became a national figure. 

 He devoted his whole life and strength to the task of saving 

 his people from the invaders, and to that end resolved that 

 first he must effect a national federation of the Redmen. 

 Too often tribe had been pitted against tribe for the 

 white men's advantage. In union alone he saw the way 

 of salvation and to this end he set about an active cam- 

 paign among the tribes of the Mississippi Valley. 



His was no mean spirit of personal revenge; his mind was too 

 noble for that. He hated the whites as the destroyers of his 



