Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2260
- Creators:
-
Library and Archives Canada
Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813
Elliott, Matthew, approximately 1739-1814
Gurd, Norman S., 1870-1943
- Dates:
-
undated
- Languages:
-
- Physical Description:
-
- Repository:
-
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Includes speech by Tecumseh, November 1810 at Amherstburg; account by a Kickapoo Indian, January 1812, of the Battle of Tippecanoe; speech by Tecumseh, June 1812, at Machethie, on the Wabash; as recorded by Col. Matthew Elliott, Deputy Supt. of Indian Affairs at Amherstburg.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 2260, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Custodial History
Custodial History
Forwarded 1910, by Norman S. Gurd, Sarnia, Ontario; see letters of April 18 and 23 filed with extracts. Gurd correspondence also includes a correction for Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30 (Handbook), page 942, "Moravians." Gurd correspondence and Bureau of American Ethnology replies, 7 pages.
Custodial History
Previously titled "Extracts regarding Tecumseh and Uprising."
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland 20746
naa@si.edu