Early in 1805, the Shawnee leader Tecums and his brother Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, established a Shawnee Indian village at the confluence of Greenville and Mud Creeks. The village was a temporary home to 800 Shawnee, their lodges, and a council house, and thousands of Indians representing most of the tribes in this part of the country visited in response to Tecumseh's plea for a unified Indian Confederation against white settlement and the Greene Ville Treaty, and to hear the Prophet speak. Directly across from this overlook, signal fires burned continuously from 1805 through early 1808 as a symbolic protest against the treaty. Tecumseh led Indian resistance until his death during the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada, in 1813.