The history of the conflict between Native Americans and European settlers is taught to high school, or even grade school, students in one way, that the Native Americans were a savage and barbaric people, out solely for American blood. Students were led to believe that in order to survive European settlers had to drive away and kill the Native Americans. According to Edmunds, this is not necessarily the way it was. Edmunds says that the Native Americans, more specifically the Shawnees, got along find with their white European neighbors. It was not until 1711 that the Shawnees began to have relation problems with their European neighbors:

"The colony began to attract large numbers of Europeans fleeing religious oppression on the Continent...Mennonite settlers moved into the lower Susquehanna Valley in such numbers that the Shawnees were forced

The Europeans soon began to trick and even force the Native Americans off of their lands. After the Battle of Fallen Timbers the Native Americans were scared and shaken, they would have done anything to save themselves from the wrath of the Americans. This is when the Treaty of Greenville comes into effect; "In addition to agreeing to remain at peace and to relinquish all prisoners, the tribesman gave up their claims to lands in southern, central, and eastern Ohio." (42) Not only was this not a very fair deal, but it was not agreed upon by all Native Americans who used the land. The Native Americans held the belief that land could not be owned, that it could merely be occupied, and once it became unoccupied it reverted to its natural state, ready to be occupied by anyone. No matter what beliefs were held by the Native Americans, the Americans had the treaty and were set on keeping the land.

This is not to say he did not have help. His brother Lalawethika, also known as Tenskwatawa or the Prophet, brought many Native Americans from many different tribes together under one religious movement. That is about all he did. Tenskwatawa gave the Native Americans hope for the future, but it was Tecumseh who turned the r

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