nd settled a pension upon the family, in memory of the father.

The Prophet received a pension, too. He stayed in Canada until 1826,
when he moved down among the Shawnees of Ohio again. He long out-lived
his greater brother, and died in the Shawnee village in present Kansas,
in 1837. He posed as a prophet to the very last.

As for General William Henry Harrison, who had broken them both--borne
onward by his nickname "Old Tippecanoe" he became, in 1841, ninth
President of the United States; and on his reputation of having "killed
Tecumseh," Colonel Johnson already had been a vice-president.

CHAPTER XIV

THE RED STICKS AT HORSESHOE BEND (1813-1814)

AND THE WONDERFUL ESCAPE OF CHIEF MENEWA

As fast as Tecumseh and the Open Door, or their messengers, traveled,
they left in their trail other prophets. Soon it was a poor tribe
indeed that did not have a medicine-man who spoke from the Great Spirit.

When Tecumseh first visited the Creeks, in Georgia and Alabama, they
were not ready for war. They were friendly to the whites, and were
growing rich in peace.

The Creeks belonged to the Musk-ho-ge-an family, and numbered twenty
thousand people, in fifty towns. They had light complexions, and were
good-looking. Their women were short, their men tall, straight, quick
and proud.

Their English name, "Creeks," referred to the many streams in their
country of Georgia and eastern Alabama. They were also called
"Muskogee" and "Muscogee," by reason of their language--the
Musk-ho-ge-an.

They were well civilized, and lived almost in white fashion. They kept
negro slaves, the same as the white people, to till their fields, and
wait upon them; they wore clothing of calico, cotton, and the like, in
bright colors. Their houses were firmly built of reed and cane, with
thatched roofs; their towns were orderly.

With the Chickasaws and the Choctaws, their neighbors in western
Alabama and in Mississippi, they were at war, and had more than held
their own.

White was their peace color, and red their war color. And when
Tecumseh gave them the red sticks, on which to count the days, he did
nothing new. The war parties of the Creeks already were known as Red
Sticks.

This was their custom: that a portion of their towns should be White
Towns, where peace ceremonies should be performed and no human blood
should be shed; the other portion should be Red Towns, where war should
be declared by erecting a red-painted pol