Some fled to Mexico rather than submit to American removal policies.

The descendants of these Mexican Kickapoo are still there — the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, which maintains connections to both the United States and Mexico, is a direct legacy of the refusal to submit.

The Wyandot were removed from Ohio to Kansas in 1843.

The Delaware were moved multiple times, eventually settling in Oklahoma.

The Ottawa were reduced to small reservations in Michigan and then subjected to the termination policy in the 1950s, which attempted to end their federal recognition.

Each of these stories is different in its specifics, but they share a common thread: the absence of the political organization Tecumseh had been building meant that each nation faced the American removal machine individually, without the collective capacity to resist that a working confederacy might have provided.