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Maumee River - Miami. A nickname or spelling variant for the Miami people. [33] [34] Mohican River - Name of an Algonquian tribe from New York who were closely related to the Lenape. Olentangy River - Lenape. Allegedly, river of red paint. Pymatuning Lake – Lenape. Either corruption or variation on the word, "Pemuteneyig."
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 defined the Ohio River as the boundary between Indian lands and the settler's lands west of the Appalachians. The Treaty of Fort McIntosh in 1785 circumscribed an area of central northern and northwestern Ohio Country as Indian land, essentially creating the first Indian reservation west of the Appalachians ...
Indian Run is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] It is a tributary to the Muskingum River . According to tradition, Indian Run was named from an incident when an American Indian went missing from his party after having boasted of the killing of a white pioneer settler.
The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek". [1] The Ohio River forms its southern border, though nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River ...
"Hopewell-style" pottery and stone tools, typical of the Illinois and Ohio River valleys, are abundant at the Trowbridge site. Decorated Hopewell-style pottery rarely appears further west. [28] The Cloverdale site is situated at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River Valley, near present-day Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Indian Mound Reserve is a public country park near the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States.Named for two different earthworks within its bounds — the Williamson Mound and the Pollock Works — the park straddles Massies Creek as it flows through a small canyon.
But on February 28, 1831, as part of the Treaty of Little Sandusky [7] [8] the Seneca agreed to relinquish their 40,000 acres in Ohio in exchange for 67,000 acres west of the Mississippi River and other provisions including a 5% annuity on the balance of the proceeds from the sale of the land in Ohio. This was part of the larger Indian Removal ...
The Paleo Crossing site, one of the oldest sites in Ohio, had two [5] or three [6] post holes and refuse pits that contained charcoal. From radiocarbon dating, the site was used 10,980 BP ± 75 yearsBefore Present [ 5 ] or about 9,000 B.C. [ 6 ] The post holes and an area about 150 square feet indicate that there was a structure at the site.