“Brothers” is used each time Tecumseh addresses the Osage tribe. The Osages are addressed as brothers by Tecumseh 16 times throughout the text. This friendly address is used not only to solidify a bond between tribes but as an oratory tool to separate Native Americans from the English settlers. The second paragraph of the piece is a perfect example of the speaker employing, telling his “brothers” that that the Englishmen wouldn’t be satisfied until they’d carried out “the destruction of all the red men”
“Brothers” is used each time Tecumseh addresses the Osage tribe. The Osages are addressed as brothers by Tecumseh 16 times throughout the text. This friendly address is used not only to solidify a bond between tribes but as an oratory tool to separate Native Americans from the English settlers. The second paragraph of the piece is a perfect example of the speaker employing, telling his “brothers” that that the Englishmen wouldn’t be satisfied until they’d carried out “the destruction of all the red men”