| Last name | Tenskwatawa |
| Display name | Tenskwatawa |
| Other names | The Prophet;The Shawnee Prophet;Tenskatawa;Tenskwatawah;Tensquatawa;Lalawethika |
| Birth date | 1771 |
| Death date | 1836-11 |
| Death place | kansas |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Shawnee |
| Bio notes | Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a brother of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee. He denounced Americans as children of the Evil Spirit and mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight them, but his movement was defeated during the War of 1812 when his brother was killed, and he went to the area now known as Argentine, Kansas. |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804