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Recent human history is replete with discoveries and inventions that have caused significant societal changes to occur before previous advances were fully integrated. The most significant of these was the giant leap forward that began in the 18th and 19th centuries with the advent of The Industrial Revolution, leading most recently to the technological advances of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The momentum began in Europe and swept the world, burying in its path the aborigines on other continents, including the Americas, whose progress throughout time had remained slow. Although, in some cases they advanced as providers for their families, their way of life remained virtually unchanged from that of their ancestors. Their spirits, economics, religion, and way of life was tied inextricably to the land.

Such a place was North America where life began each day with the natives believing that the land was in their guardianship. Its inhabitants, while not always friendly toward each other, lived pastoral lives of relative simplicity. Although tribal warfare erupted occasionally among the Indian tribes, their greatest threat came from inclement weather and the shortage of food and water. ‘Progress’ had passed them by.

Many of today’s modern cities are near old Indian villages, a reminder of just how fleeting civilization can be. Indian towns were communities in every sense of the word, where people married, raised their children, worried, rejoiced, fought and died — just like the ‘white people’. Today, children still play act as cowboys and Indians, pitting the ‘good’ guys against the ‘bad’, when in reality, the relationship between the first settlers and the Indian inhabitants was very complex, with the aggressor and victim not so easily identified.

LOCAL HISTORY
1600s
1669 - 1740
1747
1754 - 1763
1755
1765 - 1774
1776 - 1783
1780
1783 - 1790
1791
1793
1794
1795
Early 1800s
War of 1812
War of 1812 is Over

IMPORTANT INDIANS & CHIEFS
Chief Blackhoof
Bright Horn
Chief Cornstalk
Chief Peter Cornstalk
Captain Johnny
Chief Little Turtle
Captain Logan
James Logan
ME-SHIN-GO-ME-SIA
Chief James Perry
John Perry or Lollway
The Prophet
Tecumseh

WAY-WEL-EA-PY
John Wolf or LA-WA-TU-CHEH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LINKS

PRE-HISTORIC BACKGROUND
The Amerinds
Crossing Beringia
Paleo-Indians in Ohio
Archaic Period
Formative or Woodland Period
Hopewell

LOCAL INDIAN EVENTS
Dilbone Massacre (local viewpoint)
Mrs. Hendershott
Dilbones: 1813 Indian Massacre
Disease

FORT LOCATIONS
Fort Auglaize

Fort Jefferson
Fort Loramie
Fort Piqua
Fort Recovery
Fort St. Mary's
Fort Wayne
Shelby County Blockhouses

IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Daniel Boone
Colonel John Hardin
General William Henry Harrison
Colonel John Johnston
Simon Kenton
General Arthur St. Clair
General Anthony Wayne

INDIAN TRIBES
Miami (Tweightewee)
Shawnee
In Sidney & Shelby County, Ohio
Treaty of Greene Ville

 

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