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Why Was the Shawnee Religious Leader Tenskwatawa Known as "The

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Why was the Shawnee religious leader Tenskwatawa known as "The Prophet"?


A) He preached that if the Indians would return to their traditional ways, whites would disappear, and Indians alone would inhabit the land.
B) He predicted that Indian defeat by the whites was inevitable, and the only path of survival was Indian assimilation to white culture.
C) He foretold America's rise as a great nation and a world power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
D) A Christian convert, he urged Indians to abandon their idolatry and superstition in hopes of eternal reward in the next life.

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