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Eastern Great Lakes: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

American troops under the leadership of General William Henry Harrison fight the Native American forces of Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa at Tippecanoe, near present-day Lafayette, Indiana.

Americans owned the northern two thirds of the state. Then in 1818, the government bought the central strip of land from the Delaware tribe. When land was needed for roads and canals, officials persuaded the Miami and some Potawatomie to sign away their land. The Federal Indian Removal Act

Henry Harrison routed an alliance of 14 tribes led by Chief Tecumseh. Yet Tecumseh refused to give up. He organized a new group of tribes and resisted white settlement until his death in the War of 1812. Indiana became the nineteenth state in 1816. At that time, Native