Tecumseh Point

Tecumseh Point. , . , Early in 1805, the Shawnee leader Tecums and his brother, Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, Established a Shawnee Indian village at the confluence Greenville and Mud Creeks. The village, a temporary home to 800 Shawnee, their lodges and council house, was visited by thousands of Indians representing most of the tribes in this part of the country. The Indians came to the village in response to Tecumseh's plea for a unified Indian Confederation in opposition to white settlement and the Greene Ville Treaty, and to hear the Prophet speak. Directly across from this overlook, signal fires were burned continuously from 1805 through early 1808 to symbolically protest the treaty. Tecumseh lead the Indian resistance until his death during the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada in 1813., [Captions:] , Greene Ville - April 1807 , "These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us on which to lite our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the great Spirit above knows no boundaries, nor will any of his red people acknowledge any." , - Tecumseh, Greene Ville - September 1807 , "The Indians did not remove to this place because it was a pretty place or very valuable, fort was neither, but because it was revealed to me that the place was a proper one to establish his doctrines, they were not my own nor were they taught me by man, but by the Supreme Ruler of the universe." , The Prophet