Artfuldodger
Senior Member
I was reading about Billy Bowlegs and it sparked my interest in the Seminole. Then the War of 1812, the Creek civil war, and then the Prophets.
Tenskwatawa was known as "the Prophet" of the Shawnee tribe. Billcollector touched on this in post #15. His famous brother was Tecumseh. Together they established a village that the Americans called Prophetstown north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana.
Together, they mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight the Americans and remained resolute in their rejection of American authority and acculturation.
Considering that Tecumseh and his followers were the enemy of the US, why was he honored in so many ways? I remember the USS Tecumseh SSBN 628 when I was in the Navy.
Personally I don't have a problem honoring all great warriors, generals, etc. but others do.
USS Tecumseh(1863) was a Canonicus-class monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The way I see it is, if they thought to honor him in 1863 on up until 1962 when they named the submarine after him, we shouldn't try to undo what they did.
Tenskwatawa was known as "the Prophet" of the Shawnee tribe. Billcollector touched on this in post #15. His famous brother was Tecumseh. Together they established a village that the Americans called Prophetstown north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana.
Together, they mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight the Americans and remained resolute in their rejection of American authority and acculturation.
Considering that Tecumseh and his followers were the enemy of the US, why was he honored in so many ways? I remember the USS Tecumseh SSBN 628 when I was in the Navy.
Personally I don't have a problem honoring all great warriors, generals, etc. but others do.
USS Tecumseh(1863) was a Canonicus-class monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The way I see it is, if they thought to honor him in 1863 on up until 1962 when they named the submarine after him, we shouldn't try to undo what they did.