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Adult Evening Book Discussion

Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens

2023-03-09 19:00:00 2023-03-09 20:00:00 America/New_York Adult Evening Book Discussion Reed Memorial Library - Haymaker Room

Thursday, March 09
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-03-09 19:00:00 2023-03-09 20:00:00 America/New_York Adult Evening Book Discussion Join us to discuss this bestselling non-fiction book. Copies of the book will be available at the Public Services desk. Event is limited to 15 participants. Reed Memorial Library - Haymaker Room

Reed Memorial Library

Haymaker Room

Join us to discuss this bestselling non-fiction book. Copies of the book will be available at the Public Services desk. Event is limited to 15 participants.

The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States.

Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways.

Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.

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AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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