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.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Tecumseh's confederacy	8
Northwest Indian Confederacy canonical	7
Tecumseh's Confederacy	3
Confederacy of Native American tribes	1
Indigenous confederacies of the Old Northwest	1
Tecumseh’s confederacy	1
Western Confederacy of Native American nations	1
Western Confederacy of Native American tribes	1
Western Indian Confederacy	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American tribal confederation ⓘ historical political alliance ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Miami Confederacy ⓘ Miami Confederacy ⓘ surface form: Western Confederacy
conflict	Northwest Indian War ⓘ
countryOpposed	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolvedAfter	Treaty of Greenville ⓘ
formedInPeriod	late 18th century ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Delaware people ⓘ Illinois peoples ⓘ Kickapoo people ⓘ Lenape ⓘ surface form: Lenape people Miami people ⓘ Mingo people ⓘ Anishinabek ⓘ surface form: Ojibwe people Ottawa people ⓘ Potawatomi ⓘ surface form: Potawatomi people Shawnee Nation ⓘ surface form: Shawnee people Wyandot ⓘ surface form: 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 region ⓘ surface form: 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 (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northwest Indian War → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Northwest Indian War → involvedOrganization → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Northwest Indian War → opposedBy → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Confederacy of Native American tribes

Early Republic of the United States → hasPart → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's Confederacy

Tecumseh's War → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's Confederacy

Battle of the Thames → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

British Canada → relatedTo → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indigenous confederacies of the Old Northwest

Josiah Harmar → facedOpponent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Confederacy of Native American nations

Little Turtle's War → opposingForce → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Confederacy of Native American tribes

Presidency of James Madison → mainOpponent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Battle of Tippecanoe → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) → opposedByCollective → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Siege of Fort Harrison → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Northwest theater of the War of 1812 → relatedTo → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's Confederacy

Battle of Moraviantown → belligerent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Roundhead → militaryAllyOf → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Roundhead → participantIn → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Le Grand Sauteur → associatedWith → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Turkey Foot → associatedWith → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Western Confederacy → alternativeName → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Indian Confederacy

Kekionga → conflictWith → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

Indiana territorial militia → opponent → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy

Shawnee warriors → partOf → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh’s confederacy

Tippecanoe River → historicallyAssociatedWith → Northwest Indian Confederacy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tecumseh's confederacy