Religious Mystic

The Old Northwest.

By the end of the eighteenth century the Old Northwest, defined as the Great Lakes region west of Pittsburgh and north of the Ohio River, was home to a number of Eastern Woodland tribes, many of whom had already been decimated by disease and warfare and displaced by colonial land cessions. For a time the Miamis, Shawnees, Delawares, and Ottawas, among others, successfully held off the federal government's campaign to pacify the region, but they met defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty signed the following year ceded present-day Ohio and a large part of Indiana to the United States. Consequently, as the new century opened, Native Americans of the Old Northwest felt keenly that their power was diminishing in comparison to that of the white Americans. Not only defeat in battle but also the...