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The Shawnee Profit (Tenskwatawa), Kumskakau, and Sauwaseekau, brothers of Tecumseh

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Tenskwatawa was one of a set of triplets born a few years after Tecumseh. One triplet, Sauwaseekau, was killed at the Battle of Fallen Timbers; the second, Kumskaukau, may have died young, for there are no records of his life; and the third, who would eventually be known as Tenskwatawa, was a fussy baby who was given the name Lalawethika - He Makes a Loud Noise

Later in life, he would be known as the Shawnee Profit.

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Brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (The Shawnee Profit)

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Tenskwatawa was one of a set of triplets born a few years after Tecumseh. One triplet, Sauwaseekau, was killed at the Battle of Fallen Timbers; the second, Kumskaukau, may have died young, for there are no records of his life; and the third, who would eventually be known as Tenskwatawa, was a fussy baby who was given the name Lalawethika - He Makes a Loud Noise.

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Stopping the Alcohol Epedemic

AUTHOR: Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer I believe that by drawing attention to the Rum River name-change issue “white guilt” will increase, because of a heightened awareness of the catastrophic consequences caused by white settlers introducing and selling alcohol to Native Americans; and that this increase of “white guilt” will, in a lot of ways, cause white Euro-Americans (or, generally speaking, the dominate culture) to offer all Native Americans their long over due restitution justice, especially when it comes to making amends…

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Indians come forward with tales of physical and sexual abuse at missionary boarding schools

AUTHOR: Sharon Waxman

ROSEBUD RESERVATION -The day the Rev. Kenneth Walleman came to the front door, Lloyd "Sonny" One Star went to get his gun.

"I couldn't keep my composure. I kept shaking," One Star, 46, a leader of the Sioux tribe on this reservation, said. "I was going to kill him."

Walleman was a former administrator at St. Francis Mission, the Jesuit boarding school One Star had attended through his youth, a priest, One Star says now, who sexually abused him for years.

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