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“In the treaty, the tribes agreed to end all hostilities toward each other and the United States. They promised to send warriors to fight alongside the Americans if fighting with the British on the western frontier continued. In turn, the United States promised to return to the boundaries with the tribes that existed before the war began. All the tribes were now under the protection of the United States of America, “and of no other power whatever.” The greatest chiefs had agreed to the treaty, including Tarhe the Crane of the Wyandot, Captain Anderson of the Delaware, and Black Hoof of the Shawnee. For all practical purposes, the war between the United States and most of the Indians in Tecumseh’s confederation had been over since”
― Mary Stockwell, The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians

“Whether it would be possible for these men to forget what had happened remained a mystery for the future to decide. But once decided, it would affect the lives of the many tribes currently living in the state of Ohio—the Delaware, Shawnee, Seneca, Ottawa, and Wyandot—and those living farther to the north and west in the old Ohio Country—the Miami, Pottawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Chippewa, and Winnebago—who for three months in 1814 had a country of their own.65 TWO Starting Over at Springwells The opening weeks of 1815 passed with a sad and unbearable slowness for James Madison.”
― Mary Stockwell, The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians