Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799

1795

Tribes attempt to set permanent

Page one of the Treaty of Greenville. Image: National Archives and Records Administration
Page one of the Treaty of Greenville. Image: National Archives and Records Administration

The Greenville Treaty of Peace is signed by 1,100 chiefs of the Western Confederated Tribes (Shawnee, Delaware, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Wyandot, Miami, Chippewa, Kickapoo, Wea, Piankashaw, and Kaskaskia). Although the treaty extinguishes Indian title to lands representing two-thirds of present-day Ohio, a section of Indiana, and sites in Detroit, Toledo, Chicago, and Peoria, the treaty provides a firm boundary line between White settlements and Indian lands and stipulates that only tribes, not individuals, can cede lands. William Henry Harrison violates the treaty almost immediately in response to Jefferson’s orders (Nies, 1996).

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