Posts tagged with ‘Treaty of Fort Wayne’

  • This Day in History September 30, 1809

    By Ruth on September 30, 2013
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    I noticed there was some dispute regarding the actual day, but the best sources say today’s feature did happen today.  On this date in 1809, General William Henry Harrison negotiated the Treaty of Fort Wayne with the Native Americans.  Three million acres of Indiana territory land was given up by the Native Americans in exchange for money (as long as […]