Tecumseh of the Shawnee People Speaks

De: Tecumseh

Narrado por: Zachary Cowan

Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee people addresses other Native American chiefs, to rally them into resistance against encroachment by the US government. He calls for unity against an enemy that is too strong for any individual tribe to resist.

The speech ends with an emotional call for the Native Americans to form one body, one heart, and to defend to the last warrior their country, their homes, their liberty, and the graves of their fathers.

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This is one of those books that is a powerful wake up to the way things were 200 years ago, even 150 years ago. The men who promoted the westward expansion and the constant re-negotiations of treaties with the Native Americans, pushing and pushing them into lands and territories that they were unfamiliar with, only to push them somewhere else when a value or resource was found on the land they now occupy. This is the call of one of the last great Chiefs for all Native Americans to unite and go to war with the white men who couldn't be trusted. It was a sad realization of just how arrogant and confrontational the ancestors of most of the people in this country were in their dealings with the Native Americans. Please read this book.