In November 1794, not long after the Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 18, 1794), the Potawatomi turned to the Americans for an end to the War.
Five Medals led a delegation to Fort Wayne and arranged to discuss peace at Greenville the following January.
To enhance their position, the American Indian Agents arranged to send a delegation of Potawatomi, Shawnee, Miami, Odawa (Ottawa) and Chippewa (Ojibwa), from Wabash to Philadelphia, the nation’s capital.
By 1800 Five Medals convinced Topinabee that the poor winter hunts since 1796 could only be corrected if the tribe adopted agricultural methods.
In Washington, Five Medals supported Little Turtle's call for annuity distribution at Fort Wayne instead of Detroit, which was more convenient to both nations.
Governor Harrison moved to have the annuities paid at Fort Wayne, then called for a land cession council at Vincennes.
In September 1809, Governor Harrison met in council at Fort Wayne with the Winamac, Five Medals, and Keesass of the Potawatomi and the Miami chiefs.
In retaliation for the siege, Harrison sent two detachments to raid the Potawatomi villages in northern Indiana while his troops continued to Detroit.
- inaccurate or incorrect link) led one detachment to the Elkhart where Five Medals' villages were located; because they were vacant only the crops and buildings were destroyed.
When the American Brigadier General Duncan McArthur extended a truce to the nations of the lower lakes, Governor Harrison at first refused to let the Potawatomi join.
It was Topinabee, Five Medals, and Metea, who attended the Greenville council in July 1814, which sought to end the hostilities.
On September 8, 1815,[2] a treaty of peace was signed between the Americans and Topinabee, Chebass, Five Medals, Metea, and Mad Sturgeon.
In 1818 the Treaty of St. Mary's ceded 1,550 acres (6.3 km2) of Potawatomi land in western Indiana (Wabash River west) and in eastern Illinois.