Scattamek was a

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living in the

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during the 18th century. He was a religious leader later termed a prophet who continued and built on the teachings of

Neolin Neolin (meaning ''the enlightened'' in Algonquian) was a prophet of the Lenni Lenape (also known as ''Delaware'') from the village of Muskingum in Ohio. Neolin was active in the 1760s, but his exact dates of birth and death are unknown. Inspired ...

. Their teachings influenced many of the surrounding tribes, including the

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, the

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, and

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. Scattamek is known to have been teaching during the 1770s. The teachings were largely based on earlier traditions, but their teachings focused on the need to return to the tribe's ancestral ways, giving up European dress, liquor, and firearms. They blamed their misfortunes on the gods' anger with their adoption of European customs. Scattamek had particular influence on

Tenskwatawa Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native Americans in the United States, Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the P ...

, who led a nativist revival during the early 19th century that catalyzed tribal support for

Tecumseh's War Tecumseh's War or Tecumseh's Rebellion was a conflict between the United States and Tecumseh's confederacy, led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory. Although the war is often considered to have climaxed with William Henry Ha ...

during the 1810s.Sudgen, p. 120

References

{{reflist *Sugden, John. ''Tecumseh: A Life''. New York: Holt, 1997. Lenape people Native_American_people_from_Ohio