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Tenskwatawa (also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into an influential spiritual leader. Tenskwatawa denounced the Americans, calling them the offspring of the Evil Spirit, and led a purification movement that promoted unity among the Indigenous peoples of North America, rejected acculturation to the American way of life, and encouraged his followers to pursue traditional ways.

In the early 1800s Tenskwatawa formed a community with his followers near Greenville in western Ohio, and in 1808 he and Tecumseh established a village that the Americans called Prophetstown north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana. At Prophetstown the brothers' pan-American Indian resistance movement increased to include thousands of followers, with Tenskwatawa providing the spiritual foundation. Together, they mobilized the American Indians in the Northwest Territory to fight the Americans and remained resolute in their rejection of American authority and acculturation.

On November 7, 1811, while Tecumseh was away, Tenskwatawa ordered the pre-dawn attack on an American military force encamped near Prophetstown that initiated the Battle of Tippecanoe. The American Indians retreated after a two-hour engagement and abandoned Prophetstown, which the Americans burned to the ground. The battle did not end the American Indians' resistance against the United States, but the Prophet lost his influence, became an outcast, and moved to Canada during the War of 1812. After Tecumseh was killed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, the American Indian resistance movement faltered and was eventually defeated. Tenskwatawa remained as an exile in Canada for nearly a decade. He returned to the United States in 1824 to assist the U.S. government with the Shawnee removal to reservation land in present-day Kansas. The aging Prophet arrived at the Shawnee reservation in 1828 and faded into obscurity. Tenskwatawa died at what is known as the Argentine district of present-day Kansas City, Kansas, in 1836.

One great grandson is William Prophet https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Prophet_%288%29

The Prophet, Els-Kwau-Ta-Waw

1.   Tenskwatawa, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ KANSAS BEFORE 1854: A REVISED ANNALS 57 , in Kansas Historical Quarterly.

   C DIED: Ten-squa-ta-wa (the Shawnee Prophet), in November,
   at his small settlement ( four huts ) on the Shawnee reserve ( within
   the bounds of present Kansas City, Wyandotte co. ). He was
   probably about 68. (The year of his birth is given as 1768. )
   
   A brother of famed chief Tecumseh, Ten-squa-ta-wa ("the open door"
   a self -given name) was, in the early 1800's, a powerful and influential man.
   (Throughout his life he claimed to have direct communication with the Great
   Spirit.) He abetted Tecumseh in the plot to unite the Indian nations against
   the United States. When the Battle of Tippecanoe (1811, in Indiana) ended
   in defeat for the Indians, Ten-squa-ta-wa's prestige declined, and he became
   an obscure figure.
   
   It is said that he came to "Kansas" in 1828, from the Shawnee settlement
   in the Cape Girardeau, Mo., area, where he had lived two years; that he
   settled on the N. E. X of Sec. 32, T. 11, R. 25 E., but moved to the N. E. X of
   Sec. 30 about a year before his death. See his portrait (by Catlin), in KHQ,
   v. 28, facing p. 336.
   
   Ref: KHC, v. 9, pp. 164n, 165n; Kansas City Sun, March 5, 1909; the Kansas City
   (Mo.) Star, March 27, 1950, shows a picture of "White Feather" spring (described as
   "in a ravine which bisects Ruby avenue," in the block west of 38th street, Kansas City,
   Kan.) and notes that the Shawnee Prophet is buried near by; Bureau of American Eth-
   nology, Fourteenth Annual Report, pt. 2, pp. 673, 674.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} West, Elliot. Tecumseh's Last Stand, in American History (magazine)
   47:5, 34, No 5, Dec 2012.

   Leesburg, Virginia. ISSN: 1076-8866

5. ↑ Recorded, in Smith, Zachariah Frederick. The History of Kentucky: from its earliest discovery and settlement, to the present date ... its military events and achievements, and biographic mention of its historic characters. (Kentucky: Courier-journal job printing Company, 1892)
   457.
6. ↑ Recorded, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States. Kansas City Journal
   9 Oct 1897.

   DID NOT FIND GRAVE
   Chief Bluejacket, the aged Shawnee chief, left last night for his home at Bluejacket station in the Indian Territory. Chief Bluejacket came to Kansas City about ten days ago for the purpose of locating the grave of the Shawnee Prophet. The chief failed to locate the grave, but he expects to return in the near future to if possible accomplish what he started out to do. He stated last night that two grandchildren of the Prophet, by the names of Mary Bread and Eliza Carpenter live within thirty miles of his home, and he proposes to have them accompany him here the next time. He was the guest of the Wyandotte Historical Society in Kansas, Kas.

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Tomlinson, Paul. Trail of Tecumseh. (New York City: D. Appleton and Company, 1917).
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7} Drake, Benjamin. Life of Tecumseh and of His Brother, the Prophet: with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians. (Cincinnati: H. S. & J. Applegate & Co., 1852).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} Cozzens, Peter. Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).