Table of Contents

1. The Delaware Prophets; 2. The Shawnee Prophet; 3. Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement; 4. The Red Sticks000; 5. The Seneca Prophet; 6. The Kickapoo Prophet

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A highly accessible and indispensible account of Native prophets and their millenarian movements in the eastern United States.

About the Author

Alfred A. Cave is a professor of history at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The Pequot War.

Reviews

“In this excellent, enjoyable work, Cave explores how a series of connected religious movements led by dynamic prophets swept through Indian groups in eastern North America between 1744 and 1835. . . . Cave’s book will be useful to students of religion as well as Native American history.”—Choice

“At multiple points in Prophets, Cave demonstrates his historiographical acumen. . . . Cave’s treatments, though, of Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh’s efforts is perhaps the book’s most informative historiographical contribution. . . . Cave’s is an admirable text. It is well researched and finely written. To be sure, then, Prophets of the Great Spirit is a highly serviceable and commendable introduction for any student of Native American revitalization movements, Native American history and regions, and early American history.”—Brendan Q. Swagerty, Journal of Religion