Treaty of Fort Wayne

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The Treaty of Fort Wayne is an 1809 treaty that obtained 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km²) of American Indian land for the white settlers of Ohio and Indiana.^[1] The tribes involved were the Delaware, Eel River, Kickapoo, Miami tribe, Potawatomi, and the Wea. Governor William Henry Harrison negotiated the treaty with the tribes. The treaty led to a war with the United States led by Tecumseh and other dissenting tribesmen in what came to be called "Tecumseh's War."

The treaty also has a 'nic-name', the Ten O'clock Line Treaty of 1809. The 'nic-name' comes from a myth that says the Native Americans did not trust the surveyors equipment, so a spear was thrown down at ten o'clock and the shadow became the treaty line. There are other myths that say it was either a tree or a rock that was used.