Tecumseh Quote

Tecumseh – Shawnee Quote So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its […]

Organizer of Indian Confederation – Tecumseh

Organizer of Indian confederation – Tecumseh https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tecumseh-Shawnee-chief#ref252112 With inexhaustible energy, Tecumseh began to form an Indian confederation to resist white pressure. He made long journeys in a vast territory, from the Ozarks to New York and from Iowa to Florida, gaining recruits (particularly among the tribes of the Creek Confederacy, to which his mother’s […]

NCAI Urges Senate to Reauthorize CHIP and SDPI

NCAI Urges Senate Leadership to Reauthorize CHIP and SDPI On December 11th, 2017, NCAI sent the attached letters to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urging them to promptly reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI). Both programs were reauthorized […]

NCAI Tax Reform Update

NCAI Tax Reform Update December 8, 2017 Tax Reform Update On December 2, the Senate passed its tax reform bill, which means the House and Senate must now resolve the differences between their bills. The Senate bill does not include any tribal provisions while the House bill has one tribal provision that would treat the […]

Blackfish (c.1729-1779) Shawnee Leader

Blackfish (c. 1729-1779) Shawnee Leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(Shawnee_leader) Little is known about him, since he only appears in written historical records during the last three years of his life, primarily because of his interactions with the famous American frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. When the Shawnees were defeated by Virginia in Dunmore’s War in 1774 , […]

Tecumseh, Shawnee

Tecumseh, Shawnee http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Tecumseh Tecumseh was born in 1768 near Chillicothe, Ohio. His father, Puckshinwau was a minor Shawnee war chief. His mother Methotaske was also Shawnee. Tecumseh came of age during the height of the French and Indian War and in 1774 his father was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore’s […]

Tecumseh, Shawnee Leader

Tecumseh, Shawnee Leader Archaeology Ruled ca. A.D. 1789-1813 Tuesday, July 16, 2013 (The Bridgeman Art Library, The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY) Tecumseh in an 1881 engraving Throughout history in many cultures, preserving the physical remains of great figures has been considered vital for religious, cultural, or political reasons. Many Native Americans don’t share […]