The Shawnees And The War For America Case Analysis

Imagine a typical two car collision. Naturally, there will be two distinctive versions of how the accident occurred and who is at fault derived from the two drivers involved. History parallels this two car collision example in which, there are usually two or several distinctive versions of how historical events happened. Growing up in the United States the average student is familiar with a basic time line of American history obtained from school. However, the student may not have been provided with other versions of American history often only given dates and significance of events pertaining to American culture. Colin G. Calloway in his book, The Shawnees and the War for America focuses on the Native American version of American’s historical

The Treaty of Fort Wayne assembled by Governor Harrison, which no Shawnee’s participated in, involved a $5,250 trade in goods and increased annual subsidies for more than three million acres of land in Illinois and Indiana. News of this deal outraged an already divided Indian nation, brought on by the Treaty of Greenville, strengthened Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa movement along with bringing Tecumseh into power to lead his followers against the American government. In August 1810 Tecumseh, in a meeting with Harrison in a failed attempt to reverse the Treaty of Fort Wayne; Tecumseh warns, “Harrison to make no more treaties with village chiefs because he, Tecumseh, was now ‘the acknowledged chief of all the Indians’”. John Sugden Techumseh’s biographer states, “the Treaty of Fort Wayne ‘put Tecumseh on the road to war’”. Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa encouraged fellow Native Americans to renounce any form of American civilization being forced upon them and join them to restore traditional Indian culture. The Treaty of Fort Wayne brought about several events which would lead to the War of 1812 (The Second War of Independence) involving Britain, Indians, and American