Tenskwatawa

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Other Names: The Prophet;The Shawnee Prophet;Tenskatawa;Tenskwatawah;Tensquatawa;Lalawethika

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1771

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1836-11

Death Place: Kansas

Affiliations: Shawnee indians

Notes: Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a brother of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee. He denounced Americans as children of the Evil Spirit and mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight them, but his movement was defeated during the War of 1812 when his brother was killed, and he went to the area now known as Argentine, Kansas.

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