The only chance of success was unified resistance by all the nations together.

Building The Confederacy: The Diplomatic Strategy

The years between approximately 1805 and 1811 were Tecumseh’s years of maximum diplomatic energy.

He traveled continuously, covering enormous distances to make the case for his confederacy to leaders of every nation he could reach.

The scale of his diplomatic effort was extraordinary.

He traveled south to the Creek country in what is now Alabama and Georgia, north to the Ojibwe and Potawatomi near the Great Lakes, west toward the Mississippi, and across the entire territory between.

He spoke in councils of many different nations, in many different languages (through interpreters), making the same fundamental argument: