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AP Success - AP US History: Tecumsah Calls for Native American Unity and Resistance

The excerpt is a speech made by Tecumseh, a Shawnee leader, in 1810. Tecumseh was a prominent figure in Native American resistance against the encroachment of white settlers on their lands in the early 19th century.

I am a Shawnee...I am the maker of my own fortune...I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear the treaty and to obliterate the landmark...The being within, communing with past ages, tells me that once...it then all belonged to red men...since made miserable by the white people, who are never contented but always encroaching. The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land...for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each...The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because they had it first; it is theirs...Any sale not made by all is not valid...All red men have equal rights to the unoccupied land...It belongs to the first who sits down on his blanket or skins which he has thrown upon the ground; and till he leaves it no other has a right.

"Tecumseh Calls for Pan-Indian Resistance, 1810." American Yawp.

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly identify one strategy for resistance described in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly explain one historical trend that influenced the author's call to action.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain one specific outcome of Native American tribes resisting relocation.

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