Thoroughly indoctrinated in the policy of his a and people, willing student of the schools which demanded a line beyond which the whites should not advance to the hunting

grounds of the west, the sale of the lands of his tribe on the Wabash, soon after Mr. Jefferson came into power, gave him

About this time Hendrik, of the Mahicans, offense. conceived the plan of uniting the tribes of the west for the better protection of their interests. TECUMSEH seized the idea

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quickly and perverted its purpose to the accomplishment of an organization which should have for its object the entire destruc tion of the whites, after the plan of his great prototype, King From tribe to tribe he passed, declaring " The Great Philip. :

gave this great island to his red children ; he placed the whites on the other side of the big water they were not con Spirit

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tented with their own, but came to take ours from us.

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have driven us from the sea to the lakes ; we can go no further. They have taken upon them to say this land belongs to the

Miamis, this to the Delaware*, and so on ; but the Great Spirit intended it as the common property of us all." For four years he was engaged in the work of preparing the tribes for a gene war. A silent man in the ordinary circumstances of life,

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he could employ more than the eloquence of Logan, and when