Response To Tecumseh's 'Voices Of Freedom'

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Andrew Gendel Professor Coburn History 17A 22 October 2015 Response Paper Chapter eight in the book, Voices Of Freedom, we read into the years of 1790 through 1815. In the coming chapters we learn about the French Revolution (1792-93), but also skim past Judith Murray and the equality of sexes, George Washington’s farewell address, George Tucker on Gabriel’s rebellion, Mercy Otis Warren on religion and Virtue (1805), Tecumseh on Indians and lands (1810), Felix Grundy, and Battle Cry of the War Hawks (1811). Although chapter eight follows the process of the republic and securing it I find that through this chapter an argument that is most presented in chapter eight is that of Indian rights in the New America, the rise of colonization and the amelioration of Native ways. Tecumseh was a chief who refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville …show more content…

He claimed “The alternative to resistance is extermination” (p.311) Tecumseh believed that Indians should understand that they are to be whole single people, and unite in taking a common equal right of the land. He withered of the fact that Indians would be selling land to the white government “Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?” (p.311). Though, in the year 1810 Tecumseh met with William Henry Harrison, a territorial governor of Indiana, and insightfully claimed that war was on the corner step if white invasions kept occurring on Indian lands. A year later on 1811, Tecumseh ordered an attack on the American frontiers, though

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