For Native Americans to have any chance for freedom from white settlers, the disparate tribes had to unite. Tecumseh was the Shawnee Indian who worked to revive the Alliance. Some time after going up against his archenemy William Harrison, whose father had signed the Declaration of Independence, a document originally intended for white peoples’ freedom not equal rights for all Americans, Tecumseh positioned himself with the British. He died in the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812.
Born in the early days of the United States’ history, Edward Eggleston grew up in Vevay, Indiana. During the Civil War, he became disillusioned toward America’s claims of liberty and was opposed to slavery. By the time he was in his thirties, he had moved to New York and was writing novels like The Hoosier Schoolmaster and The Circuit Ryder. Always interested in history, he became president of the American Historical Association in 1900. He died in 1902.
