On August 3, 1795, the United States and Northwest Indian
Federation, a confederacy of tribal nations from the eastern
Great Lakes region, signed the Treaty of Greenville, pausing
two decades of hostility over territory disputes.

The Federation, comprised mostly of Shawnee, Delaware,
Iroquois, Ottawa, Ojibwa and Miami nations, had formed to
collectively defend its member nations’ ancestral lands from
being overtaken—often violently—by European settlers
moving westward since the American Revolution.