Kispoko

The Kispoko were a division of the Shawnee confederacy, from whose paternal lines hereditary war chiefs traditionally came. Driven from Ohio during the Beaver Wars, they lived among the Creek before returning around 1759.

The Kispoko leader Tecumseh built a multi-tribal alliance against American expansion and helped the British capture Detroit in 1812. His death at the Battle of the Thames in 1813 ended that alliance; most Kispoko later moved west of the Mississippi.