8.5.3

Outline the major treaties with American Indian nations during the administrations of the first four presidents and the varying outcomes of those treaties.
Treaty of Greenville:
             This treaty was signed after the Battle of Fallen Timbers. This treaty opened most of Ohio to the white settlement. The Indians also agreed to give up their claim to the lands east and south of a boundary line beginning at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River and running south to. The United States gave up its claim to the lands north and west of the Greenville Treaty line, east of the Mississippi River, north of the, and south of the Great Lakes. In return the 12 Indian tribes received $20,000 worth of goods that they were supposed to share and the right to hunt the land.

Canandaigua Treaty: (Indians of Ohio and Indiana prior to 1795 Greenville treaty)
             In 1794, the Canandaigua Treaty, also know as the Great Peace Treaty, was included the United States and the Indian tribes known as the Six Nations. The treaty was signed by the chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and representatives from the United States. This treaty represents 200 years of friendship between the United States and the Iroquois Confederacy.

Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
Treaty of Fort Wayne:

          On September 30,1809, Governor Harrison signed the Treaty of Fort Wayne with the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Wea, Kickapoo and the Eel River tribes. This treaty gave the U.S. obtain more than 2 million acres of land in the southern third of Indiana. An Indian resistance, led by Tecumseh and the Prophet, became progressively more harsh. Because of the treaty of Fort Wayne, The U.S.’s relationships with the Indians continued to weaken until General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe.


More Information:

   1.    http://www.ohiokids.org/ohc/history/h_indian/%20document/tgreenev.html
          Describes the Treaty of Greenville. Tells why and what the treaty includes.

   2.    http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/greenvil.html
          Talks about the Treaty of Greenville, which was signed on August 3, 1795. It was a treaty of peace between the United States of America and several Indian tribes.

   3.    http://www.wyandot.org/greenvil.htm
          A copy of the Treaty of Greenville.

   4.    http://canandaigua-treaty.org/
          The Canandaigua Treaty Committee was established to increase awareness, promote public interest and involvement in the Great Peace Treaty of 1794.

   5.    http://www.sni.org/treaty1794.htm
          The Seneca Nation of Indians. The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. Preamble of the Canandaigua Treaty. A Treaty between the United States.

   6.    http://www.sixnations.org/Lessons_from_History/?article=6
          Treaty between the United States of America and the Tribes of Indians called the Six Nations.

   7.    http://www.councilfire.com/treaty/treaty44.htm
          Treaty of Fort Wayne with the Delawares, Potawatomi, Miami and Eel River MIAMI SEPTEMBER 30, 1809 7 Stat., 113. Proclamation, Jan. 16, 1810.

   8.    http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7156/treaties.html
          Page containing the text of the treaty. July 1748 Treaty of Lancaster; August 1795 Greenville Treaty; June 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne.

   9.    http://www.mississinewa1812.com/timeline.htm
          Harrison negotiates the Treaty of Fort Wayne with the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Wea, Kickapoo and the Eel River tribes.

   10.  http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/pbp/books/treaties/t_1809.html
          to cede to the United States all that tract of country which shall be included between the boundary line established by the treaty of Fort Wayne.