Tecumseh Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

This essay is a chapter in the exhibit catalogue for Bonnie Devine's exhibit "The Tecumseh Papers" , curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. The essay situates Shawnee war chief Tecumseh within the Western Confederacy of Nations allied with Great Britain prior to, and during, the War of 1812. The essay focuses on various wampum belts delivered by the British to the member nations (formerly called tribes) of the Western Confederacy.

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- Contemporary Indigenous Arts, War of 1812, Indigenous Warfare, Tecumseh

Ipotesi di ricostruzioni e confronti sulle fonti che riportano la storia del profeta shawnee Tenskwatawa, fratello del condottiero Tecumseh, fautore di una visione di rinnovamento messianico che guidò i nativi alla rivolta, fino al naufragio dell'impresa nella battaglia di Tippecanoe e in quella sul fiume Thames, rispettivamente del 1811 e '14.

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- American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Shawnee Indians, Tecumseh

Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 1842 novel The Western Captive has been recently re-published in an excellent critical edition (reviewed in Legacy this year). While the editor of this edition, Caroline Woidat, has done a fine job introducing the reader to Oakes Smith's life and career, and more specifically, to her work with editors like Henry Schoolcraft to translate Native American stories, what no scholar has explained is why this novel disappeared so quickly in literary history--and more surprisingly, why it was originally advertised as "The Western Captain" in Park Benjamin's The New World, where it was published as one of the first paperback novels. Here I argue for its jingoist advertising as no mistake, but the publisher's attempt to align what was a truly radical work with the dominant imperialist attitude of most American readers at the time--sure, to sell it.