Tecumseh on Indians and Land

William Harrison was the territorial governor of Indiana. Tecumseh met with him in 1810, and told him he believed that a war would soon break out if the Whites did not stop imposing on the Indians’ land. Tecumseh refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville, which was a treaty between the Indians and the English which created a boundary between the Indian’s territory and the English in the exchange for certain goods worth a lot of money. Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers. Tecumseh was famous for not signing the Treaty of Greenville and Tenskwatawa was a religious prophet. Their presence and influence was important to the war of 1812 because they warned William Harrison that it would end up in war if they did not stop taking their land. Tecumseh had a good argument against the English by saying that they had different customs than the Indians. The Indians believed that the land belonged to them because they were there first and the land should not be sold to anyone unless the decision was made as a whole, this was the main difference between the two. The English were up for selling land in order to gain profit and bigger farms, while the Indians did not.