Tecumseh - The Roaming Cherokee" outlines in detail why his name means "goes through one place to another". He travelled extensively, promoting resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. As a persuasive orator, Tecumseh formed the first Native American confederacy and promoted intertribal unity. Taking sides with the British, he participated in many campaigns before, during and after the War Of 1812.Tecumseh became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.