By R. David Edmunds
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In 1803 a Shawnee delegation at Fort Wayne informed American officials that their forefathers had stood on the shores of the Atlantic, watching as a strange object appeared on the horizon. The Master of Life is about to restore to the Shawnees their knowledge and their rights and he will trample the Long Knives under his feet. He warned the tribesmen that frontier whiskey "was poison and accursed," and described in vivid detail the special tortures awaiting the souls of unrepentant alcoholics.
Instructing his audience to spread word of the upcoming miracle, the Shawnee directed them to reassemble at Greenville on June 16, when the Master of Life would send a Black Sun as mute testimony of the Prophet's authority.
In 1803 a Shawnee delegation at Fort Wayne informed American officials that their forefathers had stood on the shores of the Atlantic, watching as a strange object appeared on the horizon. The Master of Life is about to restore to the Shawnees their knowledge and their rights and he will trample the Long Knives under his feet. He warned the tribesmen that frontier whiskey "was poison and accursed," and described in vivid detail the special tortures awaiting the souls of unrepentant alcoholics.