Chapter III 



TENSKWATAWA THE SHAWANO PROPHET 



I told all the redskins that the way they were in was not good, and that they 

 ought to ahandon it. — Tenskwatawa. 



A very shrewd and influential man, but circumstances hare destroyed him. — 

 CatUn. 



Forty years had passed away and change* bad come to the western 

 territory. The cross of Saint Oeorge, erected in the place, of the lilies 

 of France, had been supplanted by tbe flag of the young republic, 

 which in one generation bad extended its sway from tbe lakes to tbe 



et, 1808 :mil 1831, 



gulf and from the Atlantic to the Rocky mountains. By treaties made 

 in 17GS with the Iroquois and Cberokee, the two leading Indian con 

 federacies in tbe cast, tbe Ohio and the Kanawha bad been fixed as tbe 

 boundary between tbe two races, tbe Indians renouncing forever their 

 claims to tbe seaboard, tbe Delaware, and tbe Susquehanna, while they 

 were confirmed in their possession of tbe, Alleghany, the Ohio, and the 

 great northwest. Put the restless borderer would not be limited, and 

 encroachments on tbe native domain were constantly being made, 

 resulting in a chronic warfare which kept alive the spirit of resentment. 

 Tbe consequence was that in tbe. final struggle of the Revolution tbe 

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