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<p>In 1785, the Confederation Congress dispatched Richard Butler and Samuel Holden Parsons to negotiate a treaty with the Shawnee Indians. The Shawnees refused to accept the terms of the Treaty of Fort McIntosh, and the American government hoped that war could be avoided with the Indians. The negotiations took place at Fort Finney, near modern day Cincinnati, Ohio. The Shawnees refused to accept the land set aside for them in the Treaty of Fort McIntosh. They gave the American negotiators a belt of black wampum, a sign of war. Butler and Parsons threatened the Shawnees with attack if they refused to the Americans' demands. Shawnee leaders, fearing the power of the American military, agreed to the Treaty of Fort Finney, also known as the Treaty at the Mouth of the Great Miami, on January 31, 1786. The Shawnee leaders in attendance agreed to relinquish all claims to their land in southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. They promised to move to the land set aside for them in the Treaty of Fort McIntosh. The Americans also promised to keep white squatters from settling on land reserved exclusively for the Indians.</p>   
<p>Although some of the Shawnee Indians signed the treaty, many of them refused to abide by it. Most still claimed all of the land north of the Ohio River. White settlers now viewed that land as theirs and began to move into the region. Violence continued between the Americans and Indians in the Ohio Country.</p>
==See Also==
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*[[Richard Butler]]
*[[Charles Finney]]
*[[Samuel H.  Parsons]]
*[[Shawnee Indians]]
*[[Ohio Country]]
*[[Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785)]]
*[[Confederation Congress]]
*[[Treaty of Fort Finney (1786) (Transcript)]]
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==References==
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#Tooker, Elisabeth. <em>An Ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649</em>. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
#Vogel, John J. <em>Indians of Ohio and Wyandot County</em>. New York, NY: Vantage Press, 1975.<strong>&nbsp;</strong>
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