Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799
1774
Shawnee and Lenape Confederacy resist European encroachment
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).