As an early Shawnee chief, Tecumseh wanted many American
Indian tribes to unite and fight the white settlers who were illegally settling
on Shawnee and other nations. He started his campaign to persuade Old Northwest
and Deep South Indians to come together and resist white settlers in their territory
in 1809 and by 1810 he had managed to organize the Ohio Valley Confederacy,
which united Indians from various nations including Shawnee, Kickapoo,
Menominee, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Wyandot and Winnebago against white settlers.
