TREATY OF EASTON (1758): THE PROMISE TO UNPROMISE
admin The week was chaotic, but at its end a mutual concurrence was forged, the official date being October 26th, 1758. In its Genesis, the result was alluded to be spectacular;…
INDIAN TREATIES OF THE OHIO COUNTRY
TREATY OF FORT HARMAR (1789): The Reversal of “Fortune” Treaty 📜
The Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789) was a treaty made between the United States and the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwa Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape, all Indigenous nations with territorial claims…
THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE (1796) 🦃🐢🦅
To the white settlers, this treaty was known as the Treaty with the Wyandots but formally titled A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes…
TREATY OF FORT PITT (1778) 📜✍🏻✍🏻
The primary purpose of this treaty was to procure a military alliance between the newly formed United States of America and the Lenape Nation of the Ohio Valley. Prior to…
THE TREATY OF FORT STANWIX (1769)✍🏻📜📜
The Proclamation of 1763 bequeathed, essentially, more power to the British Crown, thus eliminating the spread of white settlers into the Indians lands: how? By expelling non-English white settlers. That…
TREATY AT THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT MIAMI 🐢 (1786 ✍📜)
By 1785, hostilities in the Ohio Country between Indians and White Settlers were increasing with unprecedented ferocity. Wars, battles, surprise attacks, scalpings, killings and shootings were becoming a mundane, but…
GREAT PEACE OF MONTREAL: THE GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN HIGHTIDE 🦅🦉🐢
While this treaty was not relevant at the time of its arbitration in the Ohio Country, it would certainly have an effect on the entire landscape thereof! By 1701, after…
TREATY OF FORT McINTOSH (1785) ✍🏻
“The Treaty of Fort McIntosh was a treaty between the United States government and representatives of the Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa nations of Native Americans. The treaty was signed…