Brian Perilla APUSH Period H 10-3-11 NEGOTIATIONS between the Western Indian Confederacy & U.S.

Commissioners on the issue of the Ohio River as the boundary of Indian lands

The main deterrent to movement westward was the reluctance of the Indians of Western Indian Confederacy to leave their previously held line of the Ohio River. The Indians refusal to leave caused tension that many Americans settlers feared. The Indians felt cheated, It agrees with the declaration of those few, who attended these treaties. Vizt. that they went to meet your Commissioners to make peace, but through fear were obliged to sign any paper that was laid before them, and it has since appeared that deeds of cession were signed by them instead of Treaties of peace. (negotiations 1), and thus refused to leave their lands, but by not refusing to leave their lands they secondarily declared that the peace with the U.S. Was broken. Settlers and diplomats alike felt that there would be no peaceful solution to the conflict, It appears to me that there is little probability of effecting a Peace, and I am inclined to believe that the Commissioners do not expect it that General Wayne does not expect it. (negotiation 1) the government needed people to move West so that the French, in Louisiana, and British, in Canada, did not encroach on its recently acquired Lands. The americans did move west and they also crossed what the indians considered the border, the Ohio River, which led to more conflicts with the indians, especially during Andrew Jackson's presidency.