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"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"--

"A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Shawnee, including chief Tecumseh and conflicts such as Little Turtle's War"--

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Shawnee leader, including his struggle to regain lost Native American territory, his efforts to unite Native American nations, and his death during the War of 1812.

Offers the true account of the famed frontier explorer who was captured in Kentucky in 1778 by the Shawnee and held hostage because of broken treaties, but escaped to warn his family and other settlers of the next planned attack.

When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction...