Native People

 


An 1812 pencil sketch drawing
of Tecumtha by Lossing.

 

This brief story about the remarkable and inspirational

Shawnee Chief Tecumseh is representative of

nearly the entire history of American Native people

and the invaders who stole everything but their dignity.

 

 

After years of forced removals, Tecumseh and his people

were about to be asked to move further West once again.

One day Tecumseh and a General who had come to discuss

this next move with him, sat down on a log to talk.

During the conversation, Tecumseh kept sliding over on the log

toward the General and saying to him, "move over".

This was repeated until finally the General was at the end of the log

and Tecumseh gave him a shove and said once more, "move over".

The General replied, "I can't, I am at the end of the log".

Tecumseh then said wisely to him,

"now you know how it is for my people".

Beckley Post-Herald, January 27, 1962

 

Many of the links below are from the

outstanding web site of PBS, The West

 

Big Foot

Black Elk

additional Black Elk

Black Kettle

Blue Jacket

additional Blue Jacket

additional Blue Jacket

Cochise

Crazy Horse

additional Crazy Horse

Frank Fools Crow

Geronimo

Ishi

additional Ishi

Helen Hunt Jackson

Chief Joseph

additional Chief Joseph

George Kills In Sight Interview

Looking Glass

Wilma Mankiller

A visit with Henry Mitchell

N. Scott Momaday

Popé

Osceola

additional Osceola

additional Osceola

Red Cloud

Red Jacket

additional Red Jacket

additional Red Jacket

additional

Red Jacket

Sacagawea

additional Sacagawea

Chief Seattle

Sequoyah

Sitting Bull

additional Sitting Bull

additional Sitting Bull

Tarhe, Grand Sachem of the Wyandot

Tarhe, Grand Sachem

Tecumseh

additional Tecumseh

additional Tecumseh

additional Tecumseh

additional Tecumseh

Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

additional Westerman

Wovoka

Zitkala-Sa

additional Zitkala-Sa

 

The Tribal Index

An extraordinary collection of photographs
and biographies by America's premier
American Native photographer,
Edward Sheriff Curtis.

 

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