Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens

Author:Peter Cozzens [Cozzens, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

MAP 7 TECUMSEH’S SOUTHERN ODYSSEY, 1811

Apart from the sultry climate, Tecumseh would have found little that was foreign to him during his southern sojourn. He still counted several Shawnee relations living with the Creeks, and Creeks frequently visited the Shawnees north of the Ohio. From his time with the Chickamaugas, and his romantic involvement with one of their women, Tecumseh certainly knew the Cherokee culture intimately. The Choctaw and Chickasaw way of life was fundamentally the same as that of the Cherokees and Creeks. In all four cultures, as in the tribes of the Northwest, women worked the land and men hunted—great care was taken to keep male and female powers separate. Deer constituted the principal game meat, and corn in the form of cracked hominy was the agricultural staple. The same fear of witches that possessed the northwestern tribes ran deep among the Indians of the Old Southwest. For the purposes of Tecumseh’s diplomacy, the crucial difference between the tribes north and south of the Ohio River was that the southern tribes traced clan affiliation and tribal membership through the mother’s family. Matrilineal kinship enabled white traders who took up with Indian women to obtain for their male offspring the same opportunity to ascend the ladder of tribal leadership as the sons of full-blooded Indians. Tecumseh would have to win over the métis if he were to succeed.

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