But in the coming bicentennial, Tecumseh is slated to emerge as a Canadian national hero.
His nemesis, William Henry Harrison, campaigning on his defeat of Tecumseh’s brother at Tippecanoe, became President. The Kentucky officer who claimed to have killed him was later elected Vice President of the U.S. He has won grudging respect in United States history. The central figure of the last stage of this fight is Tecumseh, born in Ohio in 1768 and killed in 1813 defending Moraviantown in Canada against an invading U.S. The battles here now look like the culmination of a generation of formidable Native resistance to Euro-American encroachment. Historians are paying renewed attention to the conflict on the western frontier – the Old Northwest for the United States, and Upper Canada for the British. The war, once an academic backwater, is now seen as a crucial event in forging three national identities – Canadian, American and the pan-tribal American Indian.
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