Prophetstown
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Early National History (1789-1815)
- Geographical Location: Indiana
- Date: Established April, 1808
Article abstract: A Shawnee spiritual leader establishes the headquarters of Native Americans’ renewed resistance to Anglo-American expansion.
At least since the 1730's, some native leaders west of the Appalachian Mountains advocated an alliance of tribes to resist the expanding British settlements and the powerful Iroquois Confederacy. Prophets preached a radical idea, beginning a new movement: All native peoples, despite their diverse languages and cultures and ancient tribal rivalries, were really one people, separate and distinct from the Europeans, and...
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