Tecumseh Heritage Centre
12350 Tecumseh Road East N8N 1M4 Tecumseh, ON, Canada

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PLANTERS FOR SALE These beautiful planters have been handcrafted in the Tecumseh Heritage Centre workshop by our talented volunteers. They are available for purchase for $50.00 each. Anyone who is interested can contact Doug at 519-817-7889.

Can anyone identify this unique item? We would love to know something about it.

A little something today on one of our greatest uncles Tecumseh on his death during the battle of the Thames, something I found in a book. Excerpt from the boo...k Tecumseh and Richardson by Major John Richardson member of the 41st regiment which was present at the battle of the Thames. Among those who greeted our arrival, here the more interesting and truly Indian in manner and mien, was a middle aged chief, Shah-wah-wan-noo, who had formerly acted as aide-de-camp to the celebrated Tecumseh, and who has given the only authentic account of the great warrior's death, in the manner detailed in the following letter, addressed to me by him, about a fortnight afterwards, and faithfully translated in spirit, by Mr.George Whitefield, an interpreter on the Island. Walpole Island, Oct. 23, 1848. Brother, I promised to send you a few particulars concerning the death of the great Tecumseh. Shaw an-abb, an old Indian resident on the Island, and an intimate friend of the lamented Hero, and who was with him in his last moments, told me the following, touching the manner and circumstances of his death. Tecumseh was riding on horseback, encouraging his Indians to engage the enemy, when a shot from the Yankees struck him under the fifth rib. Tecumseh, aware of the fatal character of the wound, and resolved not to die unavenged, advanced towards the enemythrew himself off his horse, and being armed with three pistols, took one in each hand, and fired, and having discharged the third, he drew his sword, which he used efficiently, as long as strength remained. Being soon exhausted with loss of blood, he fell to the ground, and an American despatched him with a stroke of an axe; and as proof that he had killed the renowned Tecumseh, cut a piece out of his (Tecumseh's) thigh, to show to his superiors. It is not likely that the Americans would have allowed Tecumseh to have done so much mischief to them in his last hours, had they not been most anxious to take him prisoner, and in this way add to the greatness of their victory. Tecumseh was buried under a large treethe tree having been previously cut down the stump was six feet high. It was hewn on four sides, and there was written on these, in characters well understood by the Indians, the number of persons whom he had killed with his tomahawk.

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