Tecumseh: Who Was The Real Legendary Chief? | Nations At War | Absolute History

In 1812, General Isaac Brock needed allies to push back the American invasion. He would find one in a legendary hero fighting for a nation of his own- Tecumseh.
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[@LS-kg6my]

Thank you so much for these important documentaries. I’m from the US and have struggled to understand the history of European contact. This fills in so many pieces of the puzzle. Really amazing work

[@AleeshaWeesha]

I've enjoyed learning any information about Tecumseh as my 4x Great Grandmother, Tecumpease, was one of his sisters.

[@Xxiii__]

us natives luv fucking wit white women now

[@stanpratt6546]

It was written that she was a beautiful lady to see and beautiful in her heart.

[@kingtachalla6181]

Damn they be so disappointed that your white lmao that's one of the reason why he fought

[@johntillotson4254]

Wow

[@poisonthimble5723]

My Grandfather is Glen Wildcat Alford. Glen is the Grandson of Thomas Wildcat Alford who is the Great-Grandson of Tecumseh. We are on the roll call of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe. Growing up I thought everybody knew who their ancestors were. Then the show Roots came out then I found out hardly anybody knows their family after the first great grandfather. Did you know that Daniel Boone and Tecumseh were raised together. Well just for a little bit then Boone got away.

[@EarthWanderer1111]

I am watching this video because I get messages from beyond sometimes and his name came up and I don't know why. I get what I call morning messages. Right when I wake up, before I'm fully awake, I sometimes get a word or a phrase. The first time this happened I got his name and had never heard of him. A few days later I got the message trail of tears. I am still trying to figure out why I received these messages.

[@afellowamericanafellowamer5317]

Poison Thimble- I've never read Boone and Tecumseh were associated. Where did you hear that?

[@poisonthimble5723]

@@afellowamericanafellowamer5317 He Was kidnapped and lived among the Shawnee since he was young. When got older he decided to lea

[@afellowamericanafellowamer5317]

@@poisonthimble5723 Yes I know that but never that tecumseh was involved

[@justlooking4771]

❤

[@afellowamericanafellowamer5317]

There is no known painting of Tecumseh. The one we always see is just someone's idea from heresay. Tecumseh was a very handsome man from head to foot. He had tremendous charisma. People would step back when he appeared. Even strong native warriors would back off

[@poisonthimble5723]

The portrait of him wearing the blue coat is him. I look just like him, when I was younger. Everybody said I look like my Grandfather.

[@scottgoldsberry2730]

I live in the Walbash river valley on the very ground villages have been for 8000 years. Everyone walks the fields. Adena, Hopewell, Mississippi, suix, and Miami

[@eldaremington341]

I live in Shawnee County Kansas........,

[@KJ-xx6xr]

Well, I think we're all gonna have to wait to figure out who was the real legendary Chief, since Tecumseh was a warrior and later war leader not the Chief of the tribe.

[@stanpratt6546]

True, the part of the Shawnee tribe his family was in were not eligible to be chiefs.

[@afellowamericanafellowamer5317]

@@stanpratt6546 That's all politics. He was a great leader of men. Title doesn't mean much.

[@stanpratt6546]

@A fellow American A fellow American absolutely, one of the greatest native American leaders ever. Love reading about him and Simon Kenton.

[@afellowamericanafellowamer5317]

@@stanpratt6546 Louis Wetzel was no slouch either

[@Monkey.D.Tecumseh]

He became recognized as a War Chief through his actions. Being a Chief isn't limited to being the leader of the whole tribe, at least in the tribe I'm from.

[@road2morality]

I just found out my 5x great grandfather was Tecumseh. Thank you for putting this together

[@N8tiveBaller22]

Fake news. If you knew he was , you would have known your whole life with a famous person like that to be related

[@Goldie4866]

@@N8tiveBaller22not true. You find out by doing family history research !

[@dinogirrl1]

Love the 50 star American flag at 1:31...🤔

[@danielpowers5891]

Why does the episode have ads in it?

[@pozzee2809]

Love this channel. Here is another channel that does quick clips for “this day in history”

[@joeriveracomedy]

Mechanics take great pleasure in saying his name wrong

[@pocket5751]

OK beginning in og the video and I live in tecumseh michigan.

[@disgustedvet9528]

Nice little town.

[@krys-anne4497]

we're a half an hour from Tecumseh, in Holland, Oh, just a few miles from Fallen Timbers Battlefield, they have a nice walk there with info plaques, it may be a part of the metro parks actually

[@Jabberstax]

Isaac Brock was a British hero 🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@woodspirit98]

The prophet was one of triplets. He was very small. Very homely and his voice was high and hard to listen to. He had one eye from an accident with an arrow when he was young.

[@robinknight2251]

Took over Detroit... shows Port Huron

[@melissahauke8682]

As much I love history, learning about different cultures, I hate this type of presenting. He's just standing there on greenscreen and making cheesy serious faces, allways dressed the same. Then he makes those supposedly serious enters and exits from screen... And this weird 2000's graphic background. I would love to watch this content but this type of narrating makes it annoying to me.

[@johndoeiii9767]

I thought I was the only one🤦🏽‍♂️ Glad to see I'm not alone. The only type more annoying and cringy than this, are the British version of it. The "witty" Brit humor and enthusiastic re-enactments 🤡 My brother hates that shit, mf can't stand it 🤣 I at least am able to hang tight through all the phoniness, for the sake of whatever content it is that the given documentary focuses on. Where you from Melissa?

[@tecumseh6224]

Everyone wants to be related to Tecumseh. We can only be related through spirit...If you can prove, so be it.

[@sjt017]

4:51 Intro of tecumsuh

[@lostsummerx]

18:34 Tecumseh departs

[@Seven-ld9zv]

Why is the narrator telling stories as if he's angry with the viewer ?

[@UberBoss231]

19:45 C A N A D A

[@disgustedvet9528]

Tecumseh was not a Chief , he was a war leader .

[@carsiotto]

“Our lives are in the hands of the great spirit” so this was destiny for natives? It was meant to be?

[@rebeccalntfanai7601]

Tecumseh, sounds like a Naga name😀

[@nawfmemphise2607]

Exactly

[@shadeedholmes]

He is Dragon Chief Tecumseh = comet Jaguar

[@woodspirit98]

Jaguar in the sky. He was born under a comet.

[@brittanyholtgreven4106]

is Tecumseh mother Methoataske the daughter to Mary Ice?

[@stanpratt6546]

I thoroughly dislike when factual comments are removed. In particular, mine.

[@guyfreeman1549]

Some of that is KZbin (Google) itself, I've experienced that and more for some time.

[@jda79]

I am actually a direct descendent of Tecumseh, he is my 6 great grandfather. I don't have enough native left in me to call myself anything but white, but that's an actual fact

[@rayclark474]

That is awesome!!! One of my 3rd or 4th Great Aunt was reportedly Shawnee. Unfortunately, I do not have a drop of native blood but have always been interested in the nations, especially Shawnee as I live in Ohio and my ancestors had dealings with them in Southeast Illinois along the Wabash river in the area of Vincennes, Indiana

[@rayclark474]

Look up Fort LaMonte and Fort Foote in Illinois. Fort Foote was built by my direct descendents, the Eaton family, the Fort was named Foote because they were known for their large feet.

[@user-vw3ry6rm8k]

Salute. My great, great, great, great grandfather and his brother fought for the British as a Captains, with Tecumseh at the Battle of Fort Detroit during the War of 1812. I find that someone with my rare last name may have married Tecumseh's sister; also in a book called "the Earthquake that time forgot"(page 274) and "Tecumseh A Life" (page 210). His father, my great 5x grandfather was at the siege of Fort Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion, then later helped Pontiac make peace with the English and resume the gift giving . Pontiac gifted him some land to him and his heirs. He was also at the battle of Vincennes (1779) , where his brother ( a different Francois then the one mentioned on page 274 and 210)) had a piece of his scalp taken off by George Clark’s men and was imprisoned. Search: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scalping.

[@rackroll4405]

Canada's national identity? Being a pawn of the United Kingdom.

[@AntzLoks1314]

Lord-Antz_that_crawls_on_the_ground ~~ El_Choctaw_lord_de_Mexico_y_Aztlan

[@woodspirit98]

Eat any mushrooms lately?

[@blackbearbear9313]

My ancestor on my mom side

[@RPMZ11]

The American flag during the War had only 15 stars.

[@felistine]

Team Indigenous Tribes!

[@MAW51187]

The prophet was eliahu. He was the one to lead, but we didnt follow

[@woodspirit98]

Lalawethika..he makes a loud noise or noisemaker.

[@panzeroftheocean5783]

I thought neoplolean war happen before the Americans

[@gailcbull]

The American War of Independence was supported by King Louis the XVI (the French king who was beheaded during the French Revolution). Napoleon rose to power in the wake of the French revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars took place shortly after America won it's independence from Britain.

[@bobbybigboyyes]

"Neoplolean" ??? 😲😳😱 You've got to be American! 🤡🤡🤡

[@bobbybigboyyes]

@@gailcbull And then poor Napoleon got beaten by the superior British.

[@zipperpillow]

Half-assed, half-done. Cheap radio show with some graphics. No one tried very hard on this. That's partly why it is so weak and unuseful.

[@woodspirit98]

Blue Jacket was a white man.

[@MAW51187]

I wonder if this sioux nation narrator, is privy to the magna carta or if hes been lied to by his ancestors.

[@woodspirit98]

WTH does the magna carts have to do with this?

[@MAW51187]

@@woodspirit98 the original europeans were indians

[@MAW51187]

Just read kings 1 and 2 and chronicles 1 and 2. And you get the real story

[@jeffscricket23]

False white washesd his-story And it’s pronounced “TEH-COOM-SAY”

[@Wombbatts]

The traitor to Americans, Tecumseh was no hero. The Choctaw chiefs Mushulatubbee and Pushmataha told Tecumseh to get lost and had him removed from Choctaw lands under guard when Tecumseh tried to buy the Choctaw and Chickasaw with Spanish weapons during the War of 1812. The Choctaw and the Chickasaw fought with Jackson and the Americans, along with LaFite's pirates who were excellent cannoneers, against the British at the Battle of New Orleans. The American victory ended the war of 1812, ending the military meddling of the British in America.

[@thanhhoangnguyen4754]

Then Jackson repay their help by signing an act forced them to get out of their land. Starting the Trails of Tears. Where thousand die on the way. If this is the kindest for the USA repaid for the Choctaw and Chickasaw help. Then i said they must have really regretted it

[@clarenced4090]

😂

[@Xxiii__]

fck old america and british history lmaoo i luv how people nowadays get the real history

[@stanpratt6546]

Well....in his defense, the Americans were basically stealing all of the Indian's lands and burning their crops and villages.

[@woodspirit98]

There's no such thing as first nations. It's a politically correct term used by Canadians to make themselves feel better. They use as a way to say I'm sorry which they say as often as aye.