Tecumseh Biography Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee. Tecumseh worked to unite other Indian tribes to against white expansion into the west in the early 1800s, and he was also became a hero figure in American Indian and Canadian history. Tecumseh was born in March, 1768 on the Scioto River, near Chillicothe, Ohio. He was the second son of Pucksinwah, the Shawnee warrior who was killed in the Battle of Point Pleasant. With the last aspiration of his father, he was trained to be a warrior and never made peace with the whites.
The proslavery forces were burning towns and murdered a free-state settler named Thomas Barber.1 This led to a disagreement over the land, until James Henry Lane and Charles Robinson drew up a peace treaty and had the free-state men in full possession of the Territory. Brown was proud and excited to know that the abolitionists won and the Missourians backed off. Later Brown receives news that Missouri was not going to give up Kansas and this led to the all-out declaration of war from proslavery forces. The later actions led up to the Pottawatomie Massacre and the actual battle because of the refusal to accept free-states decisions. Harper’s Ferry, was the first target in Brown’s war for slave liberation.
His father, Unoka, is cowardly and spendthrift person, who died in disrepute, leaving many unsettled debts. For the fear of being like his father, Okonkwo becomes a rich and respectable man, and be able to take care of his three wives and eight children. But, unfortunately, tragedy happens. Once, at a large funeral, Okonkwo’s gun explodes and kills one powerful clansman’s sixteen-year-old son by accident. Because killing a clansman is a crime against believes in the clan, Okonkwo must take his family into exile for seven years in order to atone.
He had a rough relationship with the Natives Americans. He kicks them out of America and formed an ally with the Cherokee Chief. Who soon betrayed Andrew Jackson and went with the British. Jackson fought them in the war of 1812 and thought they were of an inferior race. He burned their towns and crops and killed women and kids.
He is showed as a victim because he was kidnapped as a child from his parents. Then, when he is returned to his white parents later in the story, he is hostile towards them and believes he is an Indian. He is very hostile towards the white people when they tell him he is white and they tell him he has to go home to his white family, “I’ll never go back to Pennsylvania,” (9). This shows that he became a victim of the Native Americans because they made him think that the Whites were bad people. Another example of how symbolism in characters is shown, is how he uses True Son’s Native American father, Cuyloga, as a symbol for Knowledge and Wisdom.
He says that when his brother was beaten to death, the law did not respectful take matters seriously. Tucker refers to the misunderstanding as “nigger law” because of it was the reverse, the black man would be executed. He explains his involvement of the shooting Beau’s people killed his brother. He waited all these years for his forgiveness of his
The Native Americans were outraged by the white people trying to take their land that was set aside for them. The result was reservations wars broke out between the white people and Native Americans. As battles broke out, reformers wanted to put in place a new humane policy. The policy was to destroy native ways but save the Indians from themselves and make Indians into what white people thought they should be. After the reservation wars broke out and the conflict between the Native Americans and whites continued to rise, the new focus was the idea of civilization.
Ikemefuna Character Analysis Ikemefuna is a fifteen-year-old boy from a neighboring clan, Mbaino, who is given up to Umuofia as a sacrifice for killing one of the women of Umuofia. He lives with Okonkwo’s family for three years before the elders order him to be killed. In those three years, he grows very close to Okonkwo's family, especially Nwoye. Okonkwo even prefers him to his true son Nwoye, considering Ikemefuna to be a promising, hard-working young man. His murder, in which Okonkwo takes a part, haunts Okonkwo throughout the book.
Little is known about Black Hawks childhood except that he was born a great grandfather of a principal chief of the Sauk (nanamaka aka “Thunder”). Black Hawk showed great promise as a teenager, and as a military leader which would eventually lead to him being considered the only great Indian leader to come out of Illinois. Black Hawk went with his father on a war party against the Osages tribe with the Muscow nation (Could be the more readily known Mascouten nation) because both the Sauk and the Muscow hated the Osages for stealing their hunting lands and crop fields. During the battle between the two parties Black Hawk killed a man, which by the age of 15 had him gain merit and become a young brave (a Native American Warrior) which was a great honor and is stated in his
For example, Okonkwo a once respected and influential man ended up hanging himself. This is ironic due to the fact that in the beginning of the novel Okonkwo said, “Since I survived that year, I shall survive anything.” (talking about the year of bad crops). Obviously he was wrong about that considering he ended his own life at the end of the novel showing that in fact he could not survive anything, including the falling of the Ibo clan and his realization of being alone in his wish for war with the white missionaries and government. Likewise, Okonkwo never wanting to replicate his father, which he spent his whole life trying to prove, ended up being buried in the Evil Forest, the exact place his father was sent when he died. When things became rough for Okonkwo he decided to give up on life, which is something his father may have done.