 Native People
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A colorized version by John Lossing of the 1812 pencil sketch drawing
of Tecumseh done by Pierre Le Dru.
Lossing had never met Tecumseh and assumed that he was a British General.
This brief
story about the remarkable and inspirational
Shawnee Chief
Tecumseh is representative of
nearly the
entire history of American Native people
and the invaders
who would steal everything but their dignity.

After years of forced
removals, Tecumseh and his people
were about to be asked to
move further West once again.
One day Tecumseh and a
General who had come to discuss
this next move with him,
sat down on a log to talk.
During the conversation,
Tecumseh kept sliding over on the log
toward the General and
saying to him, "move over".
This was repeated until
finally the General was at the end of the log
and Tecumseh gave him a
shove and said once more, "move over".
The General replied, "I
can't, I am at the end of the log".
Tecumseh then said wisely
to him,
"now you know how
it is for my people".
Beckley Post-Herald,
January 27, 1962

Many of the links
below are from the
outstanding web
site of PBS, The West
Big Foot
Black Elk
Black Kettle
Blue Jacket
Cochise
Crazy Horse
additional Crazy Horse
Frank Fools Crow
Geronimo
Ishi
Helen
Hunt Jackson
Chief Joseph
additional Chief Joseph
George Kills In Sight Interview
Looking Glass
Wilma Mankiller
Pope
Red Cloud
Sacagawea
Chief Seattle
Sequoyah
Sitting Bull
additional Sitting Bull
Tecumseh
Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux
Floyd Westerman
Wovoka
Zitkala-Sa
The Tribal Index
An extraordinary collection of
photographs
and biographies by America's premier
American Native photographer,
Edward Sheriff Curtis.
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