I'm re-reading Alan Eckert's biography of Tecumseh, "A Sorrow in our Heart". Even though its narrative style makes it more akin to fiction than an actual biography, it is very enjoyable and enlightening.
I've always been more fascinated with the Eastern Indians than the plains Indians. It would seem that they were far more advanced and better fighters than the plains Indians, and the wars they fought with the whites more brutal, bloody, and much longer than those of the plains Indians.
It is also worth noting that while they were very savage and effective warriors, their society was pretty advanced. Had Tecumseh been successful in rallying all of the Eastern tribes into the confederacy he wanted, the US might largely be confined to the Eastern seaboard to this day and our relation to the interior Indian tribes would be more like the British in India than our current model.
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