Browsing by Subject "Indiana Territory"

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    Exploration of the Mississinewa River Area/Indiana Northwest Territory Exploration
    (2011-11-03) Coy, Tommy
    Written nearly six years before Indiana would be admitted into the United States, Col. James Simrall gives thorough details of the exploration that was made in the area of what would become Indiana around the Mississinewa River area. He detailed greatly what he saw, and took note of significant Indian tribes that were in the area. This would be significant in that the new government would have to take into account the thousands of Native Americans that populated the area, and how the people would be handled, treated, and dealt with when becoming a state.
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    Indian Letter to the Government
    (2011-11-03) Coy, Tommy
    Prior even to the Revolution, many Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory chose not to side with either the French or the British in the French and Indian War. The war was simple: land. The Indians just couldn’t wrap their heads around the constant bickering over land. The Indians view of “land” was quite different than that of the English and the French. Bickering and usage of the land was the major dispute, and because the Indians saw land as something shared, and the English settlers moving into this territory at the time of the letter (1771) saw it as property, disputes were inevitable. Constant battling between settlers and Indian tribes being on land the settlers saw as “their land” caused catastrophic consequences. This letter outlines the position of the tribes listed and their hopes for peace and friendship between the tribes and the settlers.
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    Northwest Territory Protection and Governance
    (2011-11-03) Coy, Tommy
    Just two years into the Presidency of George Washington and four years into the great experiment that was the United States of America, the discussion became what the responsibility was of the U.S. Government in territories in the far reaching west. Mainly, there were discussing the protection of the people living in the Northwest Territory from Indian attacks and also possible attacks from British and or French soldiers still prominent in the area. The Northwest Territory was also disputed by the governments of the nations, and thus fighting was almost unavoidable. And, the Native Americans, who truly lived in the land longer than any, also had to be contended with. The writing of Secretary of War Henry Knox to President George Washington outlines his suggestions on how the people desperately need some type of protection against these enemies.