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Key Native American Personalities

Find out how these personalities helped shape the Native American War of 1812 and its legacy.

Tenskwatawa

Tenskwatawa

Ten-squat-a-Way, The Open Door, Known as the Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh

Painted by George Catlin in 1830
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,
1985.66.279

Tecumseh

Tecumseh

Sketched by Gertrude Kearns in 2008
CWM 20120064-002
Oshawana

Oshawana

Chief Oshawana, around 1858
Library and Archives Canada, C-008543
Hillis Hadjo

Hillis Hadjo

Self-portrait
Watercolour by Hillis Hadjo (Josiah Francis), 1815
British Museum, London, United Kingdom