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The Ohio Territory had been occupied by the Erie’s, which had become virtually extinct after battling with the Iroquois (1650). Many other Native American tribes relocated in Ohio Territory due to the large influx of European colonies that increasingly spread across their lands.

There were eight prominent tribes comprising the Ohio Territory.

•	The Wyandots, were in the North West originally came from Ontario.

•	The Shawnees settled in the South, had migrated from Pennsylvania. •	The Miamis, migrated from Wisconsin lived in the valleys by the two Miami Rivers.

•	The Mingos name was given to a group of Mohawks, Cayugas, and Caughnawagas; they lived in the Southeast Ohio Territory. •	The Delaware were from the New Jersey and Delaware region.

•	The Iroquois were made up of an alliance of six tribes; the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, Senecas, and the Tuscaroras. They drove off most of the other tribes to obtain more hunting and trapping territory.

•	The Chippewa and Ottawa came down from Ontario and the upper Great Lakes area. The Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa tribes could be found scattered throughout the Ohio country.