Family:Pucksinwah Shawnee and Marguerite Ice (1)

Tecumseh Unknown is preferred.

Which white boy was adopted/seized from colonists and raised with Tecumseh? Was it Steven Ruddell or Richard Sparks? Sources give conflicting information. At least one source says Richard Sparks was adopted/seized by Blackfish (a Shawnee), not Puckeshinwau.

1.   Cozzens, Peter. Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).

   Puckeshinwau's first wife was a Creek. She died before Puckeshinwau moved from Alabama to Ohio. Puckeshinwau's second wife was a Shawnee named Methoataske.