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Prophetstown: The Physical Center Of The Movement

The settlement at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers — called Prophetstown by the Americans, named after Tenskwatawa — was the physical center of the confederacy movement.

It was more than a village.

It was a deliberate political statement: a multi-tribal community where people from many different nations lived and worked together, embodying in physical form the pan-Indian unity that Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa preached.

At its peak, Prophetstown held perhaps a thousand to fifteen hundred people — warriors and their families — from many different nations.