The Similarities Between Tecumseh And His Life

When looking at Tecumseh and his life, you realize that he did some pretty magnificent things with his life and what all he did accomplish. With the cards that he had been dealt, metaphorically speaking, he did have some miraculous achievements over the span of his lifetime. Tecumseh and his tribe were very successful when Tecumseh was chief because they did a lot of things differently than most tribes would have. After the Treaty of Greenville was broken by the whites, Tecumseh brought war to the whites. No other Native American chief had ever done that before. Tecumseh’s tribe was always loyal to him, just like all of the other Native American tribes. Tecumseh was different. He did stuff the way that he wanted to do it and no one was going to stop him from doing it. Even with some characteristics like other Native American chief leaders, Tecumseh was a totally different person and thought differently about most things.

Tecumseh wrote down in a passage that the whites should respect him and that Native Americans own and deserve the land the white settlers are trying to steal from them. In Voices of Freedom, written by Eric Foner, Tecumseh writes that “The being within communing with past ages, tells me, that once, nor until lately, there was no white man on this continent” (153). After saying that, he follows with this, “That it then all belonged to red men, children of the same parents, placed on it by the Great Spirit that made them, to keep it, to traverse it, to enjoy its productions, and to fill it with the same race. Once a happy race. Since made miserable by the white people” (153). Like Powhatan and other tribes, Tecumseh did not want to give his land up. All tribes wanted to keep the land that they were on, but Tecumseh was the only one who publically announced that he was going to keep his land his letter document that he