From the October 26, 2020, New Yorker by Philip Deloria.
This is a book review, I believe of Peter Cozzen's joint effort called "Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who defied a Nation."
The article had a lot about Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet's efforts to unite a strong Indian confederacy to stem U.S. encroachment onto Indian lands and the War of 1812. It is one of those new histories that paints only negative views of the United States.
I will just be concentrating on Tecumseh in the War of 1812.
Most histories portray the role Indians played in the War of 1812 as being incidental to their British allies, marauding along the backcountry fringes of the Atlantic conflict. In actuality, the United States was waging three intertwined wars at once. The war concerned with trade restrictions and impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy; the Creek War, which began as a Native conflict to halt settlement in the South; and Tecumseh's War, which started in 1811, but didn't conclude until 1815.
This last war was fought across Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, lower Canada, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Tecumseh's War was not only a struggle for territory, but also Indian future in relation to the United States.
--Brock-Perry
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