Spirit power in war, round three: the Master of Life, the Prophet's rock, the Obeah woman, the Messiah letter

SUMMARYSpirit power in war, round three: the Master of Life, the Prophet's rock, the Obeah woman, the Messiah letter (Nov 3, 2026). Extends P204–P205.
SPEECH, Pontiac at Detroit (1763), retelling the Delaware Prophet Neolin's vision (Pontiac manuscript, attributed to Robert Navarre): the Master of Life said, "This land, where you live, I have made for you and not for others"; of the newcomers "who have come to trouble your country," "drive them out, make war on them"; they are "my enemies and the enemies of your brothers." The vision launched Pontiac's War.
RECORD, Tippecanoe (Nov 7, 1811): Tenskwatawa, "the Prophet," Tecumseh's brother, promised his war songs and incantations would shield the warriors from bullets, and sang to them from a rock ledge above Prophetstown the night before (American Battlefield Trust; the ledge is still called Prophet's Rock). After the battle many lost faith in his medicine; Harrison burned Prophetstown Nov 8.
EYEWITNESS (a hostage among the Maroons), Philip Thicknesse, Memoirs and Anecdotes (1788), ch. 7: during the Jamaican Maroon peace talks of the late 1730s he was held at Captain Quoha's town; the "old Hags" who judged a captive included one who "had a girdle round her waste, with (I speak within compass) nine or ten different knives hanging in sheaths to it"; he feared "their Obea woman" more than immediate death. (Whether she was Nanny is an editor's guess, not Thicknesse's.)
FIRST PERSON, Wovoka's Messiah letter (1891; printed in James Mooney, The Ghost-Dance Religion, 1896): "When the earth shakes do not be afraid. It will not hurt you"; "The dead are all alive again"; "You must not fight"; "Jesus is now upon the earth." The Paiute prophet preached peace; the Ghost Dance was met with the Wounded Knee massacre (Dec 29, 1890)

PATTERNNeolin (1763), Tenskwatawa (1805–1811), Wovoka (1889–1890): three prophets of the land, three visions that the people would be restored and the invaders removed or the old world renewed; each answered by an army

LENS (WW9)"This land I have made for you and not for others" is the oldest written land title in the record we have. OPEN, needs deep research: the full Pontiac manuscript text; Shabonee's Tippecanoe account; Nanny Town in the Jamaican Assembly journals.