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TECUMSEH

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Native American

Pronounced: te-KUM-se   [key]

Means "panther passing across" in Shawnee. This was the name of a Shawnee leader who, with his brother Tenskwatawa, resisted European expansion in the early 19th century.
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