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"Whiskey Treaty" of Fort Wayne signed.
Date: 1809
Indigenous
Drugs & alcohol
Colonization
Laws/legislation/policy
Fraud, embezzlement, and alcohol are used to "negotiate" the Fort Wayne Treaty, which seizes three million acres from Native communities. This spurs the uprising known as Tecumseh's Rebellion.
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