Tecumapease

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Tecumapease (* around 1760) was the older sister of the famous Indian leader Tecumseh . She was the daughter of Shawnee - chief Pucksinwah , in the Battle of Point Pleasant fell in 1774, and the Methoataske, probably one Muskogee -Indianerin. Tecumapease was married to Wasebogeah , a friend of Tecumseh, who died next to him in the battle of the Thames River in 1813.

Tecumapease held the leadership of the women of her people as the female "chief". Among other things, she was also the leader of delegations (including to Québec ). She was a particularly beautiful and warm-hearted woman who had very probably brought up Tecumseh to be consistently humane and generous, even towards his enemies.

literature

  • John Sugden: Tecumseh. A life. New York Holt., 1997
  • John Sugden: Tecumseh's Last Stand . University of Oklahoma Press 1985
  • Benjamin Drake: The Life of Tecumseh and His Brother The Prophet. Reprint of the 1858 edition, University Press of the Pacific
  • Glenn Tucker. Tecumseh. Vision of Glory . Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. 1956
  • Allan W. Eckert: A Sorrow in Our Heart. The Life of Tecumseh. Bantam Books, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Tecumapease
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Shawnee Indian, older sister of the Indian leader Tecumseh
DATE OF BIRTH around 1760
DATE OF DEATH after 1760