-Especially considering which side of the war the original Tecumseh was on in 1812 (he was instrumental on the Canadian-British side, and while this war is consistently downplayed as a draw of sorts and a pointless buffoonery, one side was not nationally eliminated as sought, and that side burned down the White House). It was fraught enough, on their terms to have produced the American anthem. Sherman was respectfully named after this guerilla warfare style tactician in light of his almost Machiavellian statesmanship.
Dubbing a being of nature reaching back thousands of years (perhaps the largest living thing apart from what fungi can achieve), way past the scope of the nation’s existence and its strife in maintaining itself (which is presently global in scope, leading to the most basic of fundamental questions about what it deems necessary to self-perpetuate in terms of its own “needs”, and why this must be reinforced pan-globally). This bears consideration especially given its apex is already apparent and its inherent unsustainability is self-terminating, so consumptive it will follow the enduring model of past empires far more quickly, (if it doesn’t manage to take the planet down with it), as it indicates something far more fundamentally egotistical and self-glorifying than just anthropocentrism at work. (Especially when in addition it is self-glorifying of a war where they turned on themselves, and so perhaps indicative of an inordinate drive to glorify killing, to the point that it isn’t just laudable to glorify a man who was very accomplished in war by reducing a thousands year old tree to serve an individual war time ego, but a war that didn’t protect or serve in the nation’s expansion, and was more an exercise in self-obliteration. -You might almost consider it fortunate that on the grounds of eliminating slavery the nation was fighting for its soul. (The moneyed elite of the colony probably had their revolution in no small part in order to retain it since the abolitionist movement was well afoot in Britain, as well as having a desire to release themselves from the Treaty constraints of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which treated the native inhabitants as persons and sovereign entities with whom treaties must be upheld, putting a damper on genocidal tendencies (Canada is still legally bound to this and it changes jurisprudence significantly).)
Just the name is ludicrous on its face. The label is about a nation in its perpetual self-reinforcement, which in turn only works to belittle its object, and in fact has absolutely nothing to do with it, the joke being it is in a sense an absolute insult, one the namers found to be positively ennobling. This is the level of obliqueness the United States views not just nature, but the world and humanity and itself, so self-absorbed in its task of reinforcing self-validation (which is only possible in its commensurate ignorance), -it can only serve to obfuscate the greatest tree in the world. (As we just killed all of the ones we had in Canada that might have been able to assume this position, it hardly matters.)