Treaty of Fort Harmar

The Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789) was a treaty made between the United States and the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape, all Indigenous nations with territorial claims within the European land claim acquired in 1783 by the United States from the Kingdom of Great Britain known as the Northwest Territory.

National leaders representing the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape met with treaty negotiators from the United States, including Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory, Josiah Harmar, and Richard Butler.

Joseph Brant, a Haudenosaunee leader, offered a compromise position which moved the boundary line to the Muskingum River.

The treaty did failed to stop the violence in the region caused by the encroachment of White Americans onto territories held by Indigenous nations.

[1]: 113  The failure of the treaty led to an escalation of the hostilites as the Western Confederacy resisted the United States invasion.