Quebec History Encyclopedia: Tecumseh
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Description: Article on the Shawnee warrior from the Handbook of Indians of Canada.
L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia 'One who passes across intervening space from one point to another,' i.e. 'springs' (Jones); the name indicates that the owner belongs to the gens of the Great Medicine Panther, or Meteor, hence the interpretations 'Crouching Panther' and 'Shooting Star'). A celebrated Shawnee chief, born in 1768 at the Shawnee village of Piqua on Mad r., about 6 m. S. W. of the present Springfield, Ohio. It was destroyed by the Kentuckians in 1780. His father, who was also a chief, was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. His mother is said to have been by birth a Creek, but this is doubtful. It must be remembered that a considerable body of Shawnee were
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