Treaty of Fort Wayne

Treaty of Fort Wayne

The Treaty of Fort Wayne is an 1809 treaty that obtained 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km²) of American Indian land for the white settlers of Ohio and Indiana. The tribes involved were the Delaware, Eel River, Kickapoo, Miami tribe, Potawatomi, and the Wea, but not the Shawnee who where the primary inhabitants of the area purchased. Governor William Henry Harrison negotiated the treaty with the tribes. The treaty led to a war with the United States led by Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and other dissenting tribesmen in what came to be called "Tecumseh's War."

The treaty also has a 'nic-name', the Ten O'clock Line Treaty of 1809. The 'nic-name' comes from a myth that says the Native Americans did not trust the surveyors equipment, so a spear was thrown down at ten o'clock and the shadow became the treaty line. There are other myths that say it was either a tree or a rock that was used.

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*Indian removals in Indiana


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