He established a settlement called Prophetstown at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers in what is now Indiana.

The settlement became a center for the religious movement and, increasingly, for the political movement that Tecumseh was building alongside it.

The relationship between the two brothers is sometimes described as Tecumseh providing the political and military leadership while Tenskwatawa provided the spiritual foundation.

This is a reasonable shorthand, but it simplifies a more complex relationship.

Tenskwatawa’s movement was itself a political force — its message of cultural separation and resistance to American goods and alcohol was political as well as spiritual.

And Tecumseh, in his appeals to various nations, regularly invoked the spiritual framework that his brother had provided.