Show brother of tecumseh neglected by history younger brother of 0 tecumseh was largely responsible for or tile the part that great indian warrior and statesman played in organizing a federation of the red men to op pose the encroachments encroach ments merits of the whites lilies lil tes tn in proclaimed himself a religious leader and began to arouse the tribes of indiana ohio arid and illinois to the great disturbance ot of the settlers ills his doctrines were not DO primarily revolutionary but temperance and total abstinence were tenets together with reverence for old age and sympathy tor for the infirm he also urged his people to resist intermarriage and to preserve their own cus toms and costumes tills this being in line with what all indians had lild bead as aa ideal previous to caucasian invasion his preaching caused much excitement among the tribes and fear among the whites it was the response of the indians to his brothers pleading that started tecumseh on his mission in the cause of federation which took him to the cherokees and the other more civilized tribes of j the south in the course of which he covered many thousand miles |