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- Many tribes in the Ohio region upon the arrival of European settlers had also migrated relatively recently from the east and the north (modern-day Canada) due to a combination of colonization and the encroaching Iroquois Confederacy, a group of American Indian tribes claiming land in the north at the time.
www.midstory.org/siloed-reflecting-on-ohios-native-american-history/Siloed: Reflecting on Ohio's Native American History - Midstory
Indian removals in Ohio started in the late eighteenth century after the American victory in the Revolutionary War and the consequent opening of the Northwestern United States to European-American settlement.
- The Kickapoo Tribe*
- The Erie Tribe
- The Shawnee and Ohio Valley Tribes
The Kickapoo tribe branched out from a part of the Shawnee tribe, and linguists speculate that the word “Kickapoo” is a reinterpretation of the Shawnee word for “wanderers.” Speaking in a tonal language similar to Algonquian, the Kickapoo also used a distinct lingual code called “whistle speech” to communicate simple statements—today, considered a ...
The Erie tribe settled lakeside in Northern Ohio, giving way for European settlers to name Lake Erie after them. Erie tribal history is not well recorded, but their language bears distinct similarities to those of the Iroquois and Seneca tribes. Like other tribes in the area, they were known as an agrarian community and natural enemies to the Iroqu...
With noted ancestry from the Lenape (Delaware) tribe, the Shawnee were commonly known to migrate around Ohio at will. Archaeologists have also found evidence of villages in New York, Illinois and Georgia. In the mid-1600s, the Shawnee also had to travel due to pressure from the Iroquois and American settlers. With other Ohio Valley tribes in parts ...
- Jessie Walton
Removing Native Americans from their Land. Ohio land cessions. In 1786, the United States established its first Native American reservation and approached each tribe as an independent nation. This policy remained intact for more than one hundred years. Some argued against this policy, however.
Apr 27, 2023 · North of the Ohio River, settlement came slowly until after Wayne’s campaign ended the Indian threat. Even before the Revolutionary War, Scots-Irish from Pennsylvania migrated to western Pennsylvania and Maryland, then turned south through the Shenandoah Valley.
By the 1730s, population pressure from expanding European colonies on the Atlantic coast compelled several groups of Native Americans to relocate to the Ohio Country. From the east, the Delaware and Shawnee arrived, and Wyandot and Ottawa from the north. The Miami lived in what is now western Ohio.
Oct 25, 2021 · Ohio history began in the closing stages of the Ice Age, sometime between 20,000 and 15,000 years ago, when the ancestors of American Indians crossed into North America from northeastern Asia. In some ways, it represented an epic culmination of the spread of humans from their original African homeland into the last great habitable, but ...
1818: Treaty with the Miamis. Miamis relinquish all Ohio land and most Indiana lands, leaving them with six small reservations in Indiana (less than 10 square miles each) in exchange for a yearly annuity.
