Autumn Bigglesworth’s Reviews > Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation > Status Update

The British are always scheming and plotting lol. New settlement of Prophetstown founded after visiting Potawatomi shaman Main Poc (who is also scheming) gives the brothers the go ahead to build there after famine and suspicion descends on their old settlement

Lalawethika, a drunkard and proven coward, unable to stop his people rapidly dying from influenza, collapses by the fire, and is pronounced dead. He awakens a day later, telling of his journey into the afterlife/ the hell of Motshee Manitou. Tecumseh becomes an early and earnest believer. Lalawethika becomes Tenskwatawa, the prophet. Tenskwatawa's syncretic religion leads to witch hunts in nearby Delaware villages

Life on the frontier is brutal. An account of a captive settler getting cooked alive and a prisoner getting scalped and flayed, staying alive for a full day after,made me close the book for the day. For Shawnee, life of the mid 1700s is marked by constant migration amid encroachment by expansionist Iroquois and border wars with American settlers. The Quakers were chill but ineffective at curbing the spread of rum.