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Tecumseh  

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  • Tecumseh (c. 1768–1813) was a Shawnee chief who tried to consolidate numerous tribes into one organized pan-Indian resistance to the aggressive American expansion into the old Northwest, the area north and west of the Ohio River. [Source: Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law; Tecumseh]

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