Ann Durkin Keating

this ongoing process.

We know we have to stand and fight.

He and his brother found a settlement at Tippecanoe, which is about 120 miles from Chicago.

So it's between Chicago and Fort Wayne, which is important in this story.

But it's going to be the center for what he wants to be, the center of an indigenous country that will not be taken over by the United States.

So he's going to try and draw a pan-

indigenous movement so north and south of the ohio river and across and he's going to try and do that so tecumseh is a really important figure for us to be thinking about he's going to be opposed by the u.s government is like this is not our plan our plan is continue to push and once the you've got the louisiana purchase then there's land in the west

that indigenous people can be moved to.

And that's going to become the process later on.

You're going to see it even more in the decades that ensue.

So a guy named William Henry Harrison is the territorial government in the Northwest Territory.

William Henry Harrison takes it upon himself to burn the villages at Tippecanoe while Tecumseh is away.

And he starts basically a war in November of 1811.

William Henry Harrison, on behest of the U.S.

government, so he's operating within the U.S.

system.

He's the territorial governor, the top treaty negotiator.

And so when the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the U.S.

begins in June of 1812, you know, the U.S.

declares war against Great Britain in June of 1812.