back to: main page. Tecumsehs Brother, the Shawnee Prophet. The famous Indian chief Tecumseh (Te-cum-seh) was born around 1768 in a territory included in the present state of Ohio. His brother and collaborator, the Shawnee prophet, was Law-le-was-i-kaw, otherwise known as Tenskwautawa.he Battle of Tippecanoe and its Aftermath. Fight it out they did. While Tecumseh was away on a diplomatic visit to an Indian tribe in the south, his brother, the Prophet, led an attack on General Harrisons encampment on a hill across a creek from Prophet Town near the Tippecanoe river.
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The debt-to-equity ratio is a measure of a company's financial leverage that relates the amount of a firms' debt financing to the amount of equity financing. It is calculated by dividing a firm's total liabilities by total shareholders' equity. What is considered a high debt-to-equity ratio differs depending upon the industry, because some industries tend to utilize more debt financing than others. There is no single value above which would be deemed a high debt-to-equity ratio. The financial industry, for example, typically has a higher debt-to-equity ratio.