Why not sell the air, the clouds, the great sea as well as the earth?
” So raged the great Shawnee chieftain, Tecumseh, the ‘Shooting Star’ who flashed forth onto the northwest frontier pledging to protect Native traditions and territory, for he knew once their land was lost their freedom would follow. Some three hundred years ago in the forests and fertile valleys along the Ohio River, two cultures collided. In the area called the Old Northwest, European traders met and eventually mastered the Indian people with phantom weapons, diseases against which they had no defence. From the frenzied fighting that took place in this forest empire between Natives and the newcomers emerged an unforgettable leader known by name Shooting Star, the great Tecumseh. Tecumseh was born in 1768 in Piqua, a village along the Mad River about five miles west of present-day Springfield, Ohio. The fourth of eight children. Tecumseh grew into a strong, courageous, intelligent brave whose skills in the art of guerrilla warfare made him a menace to those who fought him. Wise in the
