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Tenskwatawa
Ten-squat-a-Way, The Open Door, Known as the Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh
Painted by George Catlin in 1830Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,
1985.66.279
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British and, after the War of Independence, American settlers had been expanding into Native American homelands for more than a century. Native Americans responded by forming coalitions that combined spiritual and cultural renewal with military resistance. Beginning in 1805, Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee mystic, led a religious revival that portrayed Native Americans as a single people with common interests and sparked another wave of resistance against American invasion.
Ten-squat-a-Way, The Open Door, Known as the Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh
Painted by George Catlin in 1830Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,
1985.66.279