The Mouth Of The Great Miami

In January 31, 1786, here the Treaty with the Shawanoe was signed by representatives of the Nation and the U.S. of America. This was one of the first of the Treaties to be broken. In bad faith trust was betrayed by the United States.

The First Peoples who once held all the land in America, retain only about 200,000 square miles. The Light-skinned Europeans, who started out with no land at all, now hold about three million square miles. The first of 370 treaties between the United States and First Peoples’ nations was signed in 1778—The last was signed in 1868. In 1871, Congress declared that the U.S. would no longer view Indian tribes as separate nations and would sign no more treaties.

There’s a whole vast area of forested remnants in southern Illinois and Indiana. In Illinois there’s a National Forest named after the Shawnee. But who in Illinois or Indian, who in Kentucky or Ohio has ever met a Shawnee person?