The French established three outposts along the river trade route on the Wabash-Maumee: one at the present-day of Fort Wayne, one near present-day Lafayette (1717), and the largest and most important at Vincennes (1702).
Book:
Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828, Poinsatte, Charles, 1976
1811 marked the arrival of steamboats in Indiana territory along the Ohio River,
“The beginning of steam-boating on the Western rivers dates to 1811 when Nicholas Roosevelt, great granduncle of Theodore Roosevelt, piloted a Fulton built steamboat, the NEW ORLEANS from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.” ~Steamboat Times
The Treaty of Ft. Wayne resulted in over 3 million acres being acquired for the settlement of white pioneers and settlers in Indiana and Illinois. Some tribes and tribal leaders were left out of the negotiations. This anger led to “Tecumseh’s War” or the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa “The Prophet”, lived in one of the Delaware Indian villages at Munsee Town during this year.
Full Article: The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fourth Quarter, 1905), pp. 176-179 (4 pages)
Tate-e-bock-o-shee and his nephew, Billy Patterson, were burned at the stake for “witchcraft” at the Indian village near Yorktown. Some traditional Native American tribe members thought tribe members moving away from their traditional beliefs to Christianity were practicing witchcraft.
As the status of Native Americans declined, there was a push towards their traditional ways.
Smithsonian Magazine has a complete article on this treaty and how it balanced the power with the newly formed United States.
From the Smithsonian Blog, Smithsonian Voices, Museum of the American Indian; 2018 May 21: A Brief Balance of Power—The 1778 Treaty with the Delaware Nation:
“On September 17, 1778, the newly formed United States Continental Congress dispatched a treaty commission to the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to negotiate America’s first treaty of peace with an American Indian tribe.
Three leaders—named in the treaty as “Capt. White Eyes, Capt. John Kill Buck, Junior, and Capt. Pipe, Deputies and Chief Men of the Delaware Nation”—represented the Lenape (Delaware) people.
During colonial times, Lenape communities had been compelled to move west from their historic home along the Delaware and lower Hudson River watersheds to lands between modern-day Pittsburgh and Detroit. General Andrew Thomas and his brother Lewis served as commissioners on behalf of the United States. Eleven other Americans witnessed what would become known as the Treaty of Fort Pitt.” ~ Dennis Zotigh
The Delaware Indians came to Indiana and settled along the White River as early as 1795.
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Voices Blog
Full Article: A Brief Balance of Power—The 1778 Treaty with the Delaware Nation
The Delaware Treaty of 1804 stipulated that the Delaware Indians held the right to all country between the Ohio River and the White River. The dominant Miami Indians agreed to this arrangement.
You can download the treaty to read below. (3 pages) or open it with a PDF reader.
Preceding this Treaty:
Congress separated Ohio from the Northwest Territory in 1800. The remainder of the Northwest Territory then became Indiana Territory.
1797-1801 John Adams served as the 2nd US president. In his re-election campaign of 1800, Adams lost to Thomas Jefferson, becoming the nation’s first one-term president.
Adams signed the unpopular Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 which restricted the activities of foreign residents in the United States and limited free speech. Today, their passage is widely recognized as one of the biggest mistakes of Adams’ presidency.
At least 26 individuals were arrested and tried under the Sedition Act. The primary targets were Republican newspaper editors opposed to Adams and the Federalist party ideals. The meaning of a free press and the right of opposition parties to speak were widely debated.
Trivia: Adams was the first president to live in the White House.
Read more about the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Two dueling parties fighting against each other amid challenges of the new county and impending war with France is a deja vu moment in history. ~Julie
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