ath on the battle-field.

He changed his name to Ten-skwa-ta-wa--the "Open Door," but is
generally styled the Prophet. His words created intense excitement.
Shawnees, Delawares and other Indians came from near and far to visit
him. Tecumseh was very willing. It was a great thing to have a
prophet for a brother--and whether this was a put-up job between them,
is to this day a mystery. But they were smart men.

The Prophet enlarged his rant. To the whites he proclaimed that he,
the Open Door, Tecumseh, the Shooting Star, and the other twin brother
all had come at one birth. He asserted that their father had been the
son of a Shawnee chief and a princess, daughter of a great English
governor in the South.

Anybody whom he accused of witch-craft was put to death. They usually
were persons that he did not like. The Delawares and Shawnees killed
old chiefs who were harmless, and friends of the settlers.

Although the Open Door's teachings seemed to be for peace and
prosperity among the Indians, they brought many Indians together, and
aroused much alarm among the settlers of Ohio and Indiana Territory.
Moreover, the gatherings at Greenville were upon ground that had been
sold to the United States, under the treaty after the battle of the
Fallen Timbers.

Governor Harrison sent a message to the Delawares, in the name of the
Seventeen Fires--the United States.

"Who is this pretended prophet who dares to speak for the great
Creator? If he is really a prophet, ask of him to cause the sun to
stand still, the moon to alter its course, the rivers to cease to flow,
or the dead to rise from their graves!"

And--

"Drive him from your town, and let peace and harmony prevail amongst
you. Let your poor old men and women sleep in quietness, and banish
from their minds the dreadful idea of being burnt alive by their own
friends and countrymen."

The Delawares listened, even the Shawnees were sickening of the
witch-craft fraud--but the Prophet seized upon an opportunity.

In this 1806 an eclipse of the sun was due, and he knew, beforehand.
Perhaps he was told by British agents, for the war of 1812 was looming,
and there was bad feeling between the two white nations.

"The American governor has demanded of me a sign," he proclaimed. "On
a certain day I will darken the sun."

And so he did.

His fame spread like a wind. Runners carried the news of him and of
his power through tribe after tribe. He made long journ