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[melchizedek22]

Oct 5 1813,The Native Americans last hope of saving some of America
for themselves dies with Tecumseh !
Tecumseh will come again!

[Slythe]

Bush is next isn't he? ;)

[superskippy]

Yeah but Tecumsah has failed several times though always with an attempt, and it has been argued that the 4th plane on 9/11 was heading to the whitehouse beleiving that they could kill the President there, thus an assasination attempt.

Of course this all depends on whether you beleive a dead indian is trying to kill off US presidents. I really, really hope I know that you will all pick the same answer I am thinking.

[Jimz]

Was Tecumseh's defeat really the death knell of Native American hegenomy in North America, or was it a notable example of a series of defeats beginning with the English colonization of Jamestown, Virgina and culminating with both the infamous Trail of Tears in the 1830's and finally at Wounded Knee, South Dakota roughly 50 years later? In reality, did Native Americans ever really have a decent chance of preventing the onslaught of a political, economic, social, religious, and military system designed to perpetuate and expand a basically European culture? The raw numbers of immigrants with interests adverse to those of the Native Americans would tend to indicate Tecumseh, no matter how correct and noble his motives, was tilting at windmills in thinking the power and control of the U.S. would do anything other than continue its' inevitable march from ocean to ocean.


ThotsNRamblins

[superskippy]

The moment the West stepped foot on the American continents the Indians were doomed.