Tecumseh’s British alliance was Indigenous-led, not British-controlled.

Evidence

Contrary to the false US assumption that Tecumseh was a mere tool of the British, he had been unwilling to enter into a British alliance because Europeans had proved so unreliable in the past. But now he spoke for unified and coordinated Indigenous-led war on the United States that the British could support if they wished but not control. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 208

Categorization

• XREF: Corrects the standard textbook framing of Tecumseh as a British pawn — an Indigenous-agency correction. — connects to: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa founded the first pan-Indigenous movement uniting spirituality and politics. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 203
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 208