"RUMPSEY DUMPSEY, RUMPSEY DUMPSEY, COLONEL JOHNSON KILLED TECUMSEH!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson
Importance of the plow in the conflict:
"These white Americans ... give us fair exchange, their cloth, their guns, their tools, implements, and other things which the Choctaws need but do not make ... So in marked contrast with the experience of the Shawnee, it will be seen that the whites and Indians in this section are living on friendly and mutually beneficial terms." —Pushmataha, 1811[17]
"Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mochican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man ... Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws ... Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?" —Tecumseh, 1811[18]
Wikipedia article on Tecumseh:
Shawnee lineage was recorded paternally, which made Tecumseh a member of the Kispoko.
At the time Tecumseh's parents married, their tribe was living somewhere near modernTuscaloosa, Alabama. The tribe had lived in that region alongside the Creek tribe since being driven from their homes in the Ohio River Valley by the Iroquois (based in New York andPennsylvania) during the 17th-century Beaver Wars.[5]
About 1759, the Pekowi band decided to move west into the Ohio Country. Not wanting to force his wife to choose between him and her family, Puckshinwa decided to travel north with her. The Pekowi founded the settlement of Chillicothe where Tecumseh was likely born. During the 1760s, Puckshinwa took part in the French and Indian War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
Black Warrior's Town was destroyed just before the Battle of Tallaseehatchee on Nov. 3, 1813,which was the Tennessee Militia's first battle of the Creek War. http://alabamapioneers.com/index.php/Early-Alabama-Stories/battle-of-tallaseehatchee.html
Black Warrior's Path and the location of Black Warrior's Town in Walker County
Google maps location of Black Warrior's Town
Jack D. Elliott, Jr.'s article about Pitchlynn's
Rufus Ward's article on Hummingbird
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