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This is an important divergence of approaches, not simply because it dispenses with the ordinary telling of this story but also because it recasts the way we might understand the death of the Shawnee tribes. Where the caricature of the heroic and generally lionized Tecumseh is concerned, there is a tendency to vest too much stock in the role played by a single charismatic leader in defining the suffering and ambition of the Shawnee people. Edmunds' work is an accomplishment particularly for undoing the myth that a single people can be defined thusly. By shifting his focus to Tecumseh's counterpoint, a religiously inclined brother who prioritized conflict over unity, and especially by framing the conclusion of this story according to the placement of the Shawnee on a reservation, Edmunds succeeds in demonstrating the scale of this atrocity in a way that histories centering on a single man cannot.
Instead of making the narrative suggestion that the death of a hero in battle caused the end of the Shawnee people, Edmunds makes it clear that this was in fact a systematic dismantling of a culture millennia in the making which was culminated by the displacement of those who might have otherwise carried on a Shawnee legacy. This helps to promote a more realistic understanding of the cultural imposition and practical impediments to native survival.
If the text may be said to have any weakness, it is perhaps the underwhelming focus on Tecumseh. Though the emphasis on his brother is a welcome point of divergence and is also justified by the purpose of the text, this same purpose might have been more effectively served by a comparative analysis of the two. Many readers will have entered into this text with a familiar grounding in Tecumseh's...
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