A map of land cessions between Native nations and the United States in present-day Indiana. Almost all of these treaties were made with at least one (and often several) of the following conditions: Threat of military force, economic or other forms of coercion, deceit or flat-out lying, or knowingly bribing one group to sign away the rights of other groups, giving the treaty a pretense of legality despite not including the people whose lands were taken. The vast majority of the treaties shown on this map were signed after the Treaty of Greenville of 1795, which had granted almost all of the land in present-day Indiana and much of the larger Midwest to Native Americans into perpetuity. As can be seen below, that provision was almost immediately ignored.
