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You know, I'm rereading the Alvin Maker series, and though I had always recognized the riffs on Anglo-European history, the story of the Prophet and the Red men hadn't set off any bells in my head. Only yesterday, browsing through children's books at Barnes & Noble, did I come across a short biography of Tecumseh. Wow. An incredibly important moment in US History, and I, a very well read, well educated person, hadn't a clue.
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Your link was not found, but I read an account of it on rootsweb that I found through Google. It was largely the recounting of Harrison's side. That's the tough thing about history- you can't get the story without getting close, but the closer you get the more biased the accounts. If the narrative hadn't waxed so sentimental about the bravery of their own men, I would be more inclined to believe them.
P.S. It's a sad day when the affairs of the Native Americans are referred to as "Multi-cultural". Sorry. Just seemed a little ironic to me.
I think it is in preface to Red Prophet that Card apologizes for painting Harrison as such a nasty person. I guess this means the Prophet he fought against may not really have been Ghandi meets Bill W. (The founder of AA).
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