The Shawnee Leader Who Almost Built A Native American Nation — And Why His Plan Was The Last Real Chance
The argument Tecumseh had made — that the treaty system would lead not to peaceful coexistence but to complete dispossession — proved accurate.
The promises that individual chiefs would retain their personal lands, that specific communities would be protected, that the cessions of one generation would not require further cessions from the next — these promises were broken or eroded consistently.
This outcome does not prove that Tecumseh’s confederacy could have prevented it.
The power imbalance was too great.
But it does demonstrate that the alternative strategy — accommodation through treaty — also failed to protect the peoples who pursued it.
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