Treaty of Fort Wayne

Conducted by the first Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison who was very pro-slavery. Harrison conducted the treaty proceedings with Lenape and Potawatomi representatives, at the beginning purposefully excluding the Miami, Wea, and Kickapoo who opposed the treaty. The Miami came to later negotiations with their copy of the Treaty of Greenville in which their lands were promised safe. A classic example of the US government approach to divide and conquer, he made the negotiations with each group dependent on that group convincing the next signatories. He also distributed 218 gallons of whiskey during September and October 1809. At this time the multi-ethnic Native confederacy stronghold of Tippecanoe or Prophetstown was growing, by some accounts 3,000 Native people lived there, led by Shawnee's Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa. The area ceded was ~3 million acres, and is considered a major factor leading to Tecumseh's war.