Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799

1774

Shawnee and Lenape Confederacy resist European encroachment

Painting of Cornstalk. Image: Hal Sherman
Painting of Cornstalk. Image: Hal Sherman

Under the leadership of Cornstalk, a Shawnee leader, Lenape and Shawnee Indians raid English settlements in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. The confederacy is outnumbered and coerced to cede lands and “accept” European settlement in their traditional territories. The confederacy continues to fight settler western expansion through the War of 1812 (Nies, 1996).

Native Resistance