The Red Man's Retreat From Northern Indiana
1950; Indiana University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1942-9711
Autores Tópico(s)American History and Culture
ResumoEarly Indian settlements in the northern part of Indiana were centered along the Wabash River, in the Fort Wayne area, and east of Chicago. Potawatomi and Miami predomi nated and acted as buffers between the Fox, Sauk, and Wine bago in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and the Shawnee in Ohio. Following the defeat of the Prophet and Tecumseh's forces at the mouth of the Tippecanoe River on November 7, 1811, scattered bands from the Wabash area fled to northern Indiana in large numbers. By 1830 white settlers thus found groups of Potawatomi and Miami scattered over the area in villages of varying size. The necessity of effecting a modus vivendi with the natives, which was never fully solved, but rather eliminated by their ultimate removal, immediately pre sented itself.
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