Treaty of Greenville

This treaty marks the official end of the Northwest Confederacy and the war they fought against settler encroachment across the Ohio River. It established yet another supposedly permanent line over which the settlers would not expand. Inevitably settlers continued past this line, breaking another of their own agreements and leading to further resistance and another confederacy of Native resistance united with Tecumseh who would begin fighting again in 1810. The signatories ceded a large part of what would become Ohio as well as Detroit and Chicago in exchange for trade goods valued at about ~$20,000. Including in the signees were 94 leaders, at least representing Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias. It is also an early example of the payment of annuities to Native peoples, although the Treaty of Casco in 1678 had a provision that settlers would provide corn in payment for the land they took.