The Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa, a religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe and brother of slain Shawnee leader Tecumseh, is now in his early 60’s.
In 1825, he had returned from Canada to the United States and assisted in removing many of the Shawnees west of the Mississippi and, the following year, had established a village at the site of modern Kansas City, Kansas, where in 1830 he has his portrait done by George Catlin, an American painter, author and traveler who specializes in portraits of Native Americans in the West.