Gilberts: Tecumseh’s last days; end to united Native confederacy dream

This is the last week to discuss Victor Lauriston’s article in Kentiana entitled “Tecumseh.”

This is the last week to discuss Victor Lauriston’s article in entitled “Tecumseh.” We have been discussing it, and comparing it to the best Tecumseh scholarship, that of John Sugden. This week we will cover the years that Tecumseh had allied himself, and his confederacy, with the British during the War of 1812.

There is too much to cover of these years to give it any kind of justice in a column of this size. Suffice to say that Lauriston does a very creditable job of telling that story. In re-reading the article, and also re-reading both of Sugden’s book – and , the only real problem with Lauriston’s treatment is the retreat of the British and the Natives up the Thames. Lauriston gets many detai