Bellona Times
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Bologna Times.
The Birth of Tecumseh by Norman Eskurd.
In the latter part of the 18th century, there stood on the banks of the Mad River, a tributary of the Ohio, about seven miles below the site of the present city of Springfield, a village of the Chihuahua Indians called Piqua.
This village had been built on the site of an ancient Indian town known as Chilicothec.
Near the river, the banks of which at this point were about twenty feet high, stood a rude fort, built of logs and surrounded by a stockade of cedar pickets.
Outside the stockade were grouped the huts and wigwams of the inhabitants, and surrounding the village were the cornfields and orchards.
looking to the southward there met the eye a stretch of prairie land hemmed in by the forest on this prairie roamed occasional herds of buffalo wanderers from the great plains of the west deer and antelope were to be seen in great numbers feeding on the rich prairie grass
beyond the village to the westward lay the unbroken forest on the north the land was rough and broken rising abruptly into rocky cliffs here and there a dwarfed cedar or pine clung to the face of the precipice with gnarled and twisted roots
or a hardy vine hung its green curtain over the naked rock.
To the eastward ran the Mad River in its impetuous descent to the Ohio.
Amid these scenes, the young Tecumseh was born in the year 1768.
His father,
Pakechenwa was the chief of the Kiskapoke, and his mother met Bawataski, a member of the Turtle Band, both clans of the Shawano tribe, which was itself a sub-tribe of the great Algonquin nation.
The name Tecumseh, the primary meaning of which is
a panther springing upon its prey, also signifies a shooting star, the vivid imagination of the Indians picturing a falling star as the panther of the sky.
Tecumseh was the fourth child, and three other children were born after him.
Chisica, the eldest of the family, achieved some fame as a warrior.
Laliwasica,
later known as the Prophet, was closely associated with Tecumseh throughout his life.
Of the other members of the family, little is known, save their names.
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