The Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.

This is Andrew.

And Caleb's here too, long for the ride.

And welcome to our second part in our series on the War of 1812.

Now, last time, we focused on Tacumseseh, right Caleb, the Shawnee leader.

Yeah, in Tecumseh. He had a famous brother who was a Native American prophet, and he starts to

draw a lot of attention to himself and get a lot of followers. And he has this idea of starting

a unified nation of all the indigenous people,

and this becomes really popular. They have a mild setback. William Henry Harrison ends up instigating

a battle at Tippa Canoe and Prophetstown is burned while Tacomsa is away. And he gets into a big

scuffle with his brother, but then these kind of ominous natural signs occur.

A comment appears in the sky and a great earthquake happens in the eastern United States.

We don't have time to go into details, but you can re-listen to our previous episode if you want to

catch up on a refresher. But anyway, after all this happens, Ticumseh is here picking up the pieces, and his scattered followers that were dissipated from the previous battle are now starting to rejoin him.

Based on these new natural or they believed supernatural signs, they saw him as the leader that was finally going to stand up to the European powers.

But in the context of all this, we still got to deal with what mainly caused the war,

and that was the British and Americans continuing to butt heads with each other.

So I guess you could say they were buttheads.

A lot of people in this story are buttheads, Caleb, yes. The American government was accusing the United

Kingdom of seizing their ships and stealing their soldiers. And then another grievance on top of

that was they were complaining that these Indian agents were bribing

these Western tribes and nations to attack American settlements that were illegally.

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