Northwest Indian Confederacy

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Native American tribal confederation historical political alliance

The Northwest Indian Confederacy was a late 18th-century alliance of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region that united to resist United States expansion into their territories.

Aliases (6)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American tribal confederation → historical political alliance →
alsoKnownAs	Miami Confederacy → Western Confederacy →
conflict	Northwest Indian War →
countryOpposed	United States →
dissolvedAfter	Treaty of Greenville →
formedInPeriod	late 18th century →
hasEthnicGroup	Delaware people → Illinois peoples → Kickapoo people → Lenape people → Miami people → Mingo people → Ojibwe people → Ottawa people → Potawatomi people → Shawnee people → Wyandot people →
hasLeader	Black Hoof → Blue Jacket → Buckongahelas → Egushawa → Joseph Brant → Le Grand Sauteur → Little Turtle → Masass → Roundhead → Tarhe → Turkey Foot →
hasPurpose	defense of Native American homelands → resistance to United States expansion →
historicalRegion	Old Northwest →
influencedBy	American Revolutionary War →
legacy	major Native resistance movement in early United States history →
locatedIn	Great Lakes region → Ohio Valley →
mainGoal	establish a boundary between Native lands and U.S. settlements → prevent further land cessions to the United States →
opponent	United States Army → militias of the United States →
politicalStatus	loosely organized alliance →
relatedTo	British support from Canada →
resultOf	United States expansion into the Northwest Territory →
significantEvent	Battle of Fallen Timbers → Battle of the Wabash → defeat of U.S. forces at St. Clair's Defeat →
territory	Northwest Territory →
timePeriod	post-American Revolutionary War era →
treatyConcluded	Treaty of Greenville →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Tippecanoe ("Tecumseh's confederacy") → Battle of the Thames ("Tecumseh's confederacy") → Northwest Indian War → Tecumseh's War ("Tecumseh's Confederacy") →	belligerent
Josiah Harmar ("Western Confederacy of Native American nations") →	facedOpponent
Early Republic of the United States ("Tecumseh's Confederacy") →	hasPart
Northwest Indian War →	involvedOrganization
Presidency of James Madison ("Tecumseh's confederacy") →	mainOpponent
Northwest Indian War ("Confederacy of Native American tribes") →	opposedBy
Little Turtle's War ("Western Confederacy of Native American tribes") →	opposingForce
British Canada ("Indigenous confederacies of the Old Northwest") →	relatedTo