Tecumseh

Tecumseh was born in the Ohio country into the Shawnee nation. His father was killed fighting the Virginia militia in 1774, and he grew up during years of warfare with American settlers moving into Shawnee lands. As a young man he became a respected warrior and fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, after which many tribes signed the Treaty of Greenville, giving up most of Ohio. Tecumseh refused to sign. With his brother Tenskwatawa, a religious leader called the Prophet, he founded the village of Prophetstown in Indiana. Tecumseh argued that the land belonged to all the tribes in common, so no single tribe could sell it, and he traveled from the Great Lakes to the Gulf South to build an alliance. In 1811, while he was away, Governor William Henry Harrison attacked and burned Prophetstown at the Battle of Tippecanoe. In the War of 1812 Tecumseh allied with the British and helped capture Detroit. When the British retreated into Canada, he was killed at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813, and his alliance broke apart.

Faith: Faith not well documented; his brother Tenskwatawa founded a Native religious movement that Tecumseh's alliance drew on. Source: Wikipedia