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It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa (""The Open Door"") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, ""would see darkness come over the sun."" William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory and future American president, scoffed at Tenskwatawa. If he was truly a prophet, Harrison taunted, let him perform a miracle. And Tenskwatawa did just that, making the sun go dark at midday. In The Gods of Prophetstown, Adam Jortner pro No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Soooo much of the book was background info about the decades leading up to Tenskwatawa's movement and Tippecanoe. I was 100 pages in before I reached sustained discussion of the events and tenets of the Prophet's movement - and then most of that was contained in one all-too-brief chapter. As a book about a particular time in America's early political/diplomatic history, the frontier context leading up to the War of 1812, and William Henry Harrison, this has value for giving a lot of information in fairly accessible writing. But if your main concern is frontier religion and its relationship to indigenous ethnohistory, it's not so interesting or worthwhile a read. ( )