Tecumseh (c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.
Tecumseh was born in what is now Ohio at a time when the far-flung Shawnees were reuniting in their Ohio Country homeland. During his childhood, the Shawnees lost territory to the expanding American colonies in a series of border conflicts. Tecumseh’s father was killed in battle against American colonists in 1774. Tecumseh was thereafter mentored by his older brother Cheeseekau, a noted war chief who died fighting Americans in 1792. As a young war leader, Tecumseh joined Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket’s armed struggle against further American encroachment, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and with the loss of most of Ohio in the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
In 1805, Tecumseh’s younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community. Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet’s message and eclipsing his brother in prominence. Tecumseh proclaimed that Native Americans owned their lands in common and urged tribes not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was in the South recruiting allies, Americans under William Henry Harrison defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and destroyed Prophetstown.
In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruited warriors, and helped capture Detroit in August 1812. The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death caused his confederacy to collapse. The lands he had fought to defend were eventually ceded to the U.S. government. His legacy as one of the most celebrated Native Americans in history grew in the years after his death, although details of his life have often been obscured by mythology.
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
- 👊 Share your gains and goals with your comrades in the New Weekly Improvement thread
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
classic millennial/gen z thing but finding work in an economy that’s averse to hiring is a pain, and no one believes me when I complain about my struggles.
I swear, the concept of people saying “no” when you apply is practically foreign to boomers. Like they look at me like I have two heads over being underemployed and I explain that “yes, I apply and people turn me down. Companies prefer masters over amateurs and there’s no such thing as entry level jobs anymore. Even internships are too competitive and the thing about competition is PEOPLE LOSE!”
I swear, they’re a generation that thinks losing is impossible.
It’s the underemployment that really drives people nuts. I’ve literally never worked for someone smarter than me, just once in my life I want a boss that is good at math.
I think they may literally have never actually struggled and don’t talk to people who fell through the cracks - or don’t talk about the times they did, cause it’s “shameful” somehow. Struggling with which china cabinet (boomer solution: Both!) to put in your house ain’t struggling. I know there’s the occasional story of a someone older with a boomer style mindset being laid off and them confroting how shitty the job market is now.
It’s so weird that they were insulated for so long and grew up in a time of such intense rate of profit that you COULD just walk across the street and get a different job that day - a lot of it was an illusion and they just didn’t acknowledge the people who didn’t make it, but still. Weird to imagine all it taking is seeing a manager and being hired for the first shift in the mail room in a week.
Creating entry level jobs is probably a billion dollar industry because you have a pool of people who would be down to train to command giga salaries from assholes while doing a perfectly good job at your relatively mundane tasks.
“I need you to create and market a newsletter. Feel free to use Google. If you could take notes so we know what to do once you leave that’d be really great.”
I’ve been unemployed for a while now and it feels like I may never find a job again lol