However, the negotiations excluded the Shawnee, who were minor inhabitants of the area and had previously been asked to leave by Miami War Chief Little Turtle.

The first nickname comes from tradition 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.

[citation needed] In 1809 Harrison began to push for a treaty to open more land for white American settlement.

They presented a copy of the Treaty of Greenville to highlight the section that guaranteed their possession of the lands around the Wabash River.

The Treaty of Fort Wayne was finally signed on September 29, 1809, selling the United States over 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km2), mostly along the Wabash River north of Vincennes.

The historian Robert M. Owens states that the 1390 Indians at Fort Wayne for the negotiations consumed 218 gallons of whiskey during September and October 1809.

[4] Tecumseh was the powerful leader of a breakaway Shawnee group living just north of the area covered in the treaty.

[8] The situation continued to escalate, eventually leading to the outbreak of hostilities between Tecumseh's followers and American settlers later that year.