Ownership of Land West of the Ohio River
Document 1793Official document from Confederacy of Indian Nations. Land ceded by a few chiefs of the Confederacy did not validate the U.S. claims to the land west of the Ohio River. Indians will not sell their lands, instead they tell the U.S. to give the money to the poor settlers so they can move off the land.
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Official document from Confederacy of Indian Nations. Land ceded by a few chiefs of the Confederacy did not validate the U.S. claims to the land west of the Ohio River. Indians will not sell their lands, instead they tell the U.S. to give the money to the poor settlers so they can move off the land.
Date
08/13/1793
Recipient
Sent from
Rapids of Miami River
Collection
Document number
1793081390001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Wyandots
Bear
Seven Nations of Canada
Turtle
Delawares
Shawnees
Wolf
Miamis
Chipeewas
Crane
Chippawas
Senecas
Senecas of the Glaize
Potawatamies
Black fish
Potowatomies
Connoys
Turkey
Munseys
Nanticokes
Eagle
Creeks
Bear
Cherokees
Elk
General St. Clair
King
British
settlers
white people
Notable locations
Fort Harmar
McIntosh
Rapids of the Miami
Ohio River
Mississippi
River
frontier
territory
land
boundary line
Notable items
wampum
skins
furs
money
treaty