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Tecumseh's uprising.

1810

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Led by the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh, Native communities begin organizing together against European settler-colonists. The Delaware, Miami, Sauk, Mesquakie, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo communities join Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa ("the Prophet") to forge a Pan-Native movement and drive white Americans off their lands. However, many Native communities are divided on this or refuse to join them, and in October 1811, the alliance will be attacked and defeated in the Battle of Tippecanoe. Tecumseh will be killed during the War of 1812.