This Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum card features a portrait of Tenskwatawa (1775-1936), a Shawnee religious leader also known as The Open Door. He was brother to Tecumseh who organized a failed Native resistance movement, and was defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe located in Indiana. The Prophet accompanied his community to a reservation in Kansas and died in 1836.
His portrait was painted by George Catlin
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