National Anthropological Archives

MS 2260 Extracts from documents in the Dominion Archives regarding Tecumseh and related correspondence

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:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
6 Pages
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.

Administration

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."

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2260, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2260


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Kickapoo Indians Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
War -- Battle of Tippecanoe, account of Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Shawnee Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Northeast Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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