Ann Durkin Keating

And what you see then is the beginning of this transformation of this indigenous country into what becomes settler colonialism, right?

I mean, up until this point, there hasn't been this thing that we now call settler colonialism.

in this area.

We really look at Chicago as this 19th century place because until then, it's a part of an indigenous world that is not tied to real estate in that way.

Greenville, Ohio, so it's just outside of Toledo, is where the treaty took place.

And so it's a treaty line that says everything north and west of the treaty line, which from Toledo runs at a northeast-southwest axis, the line does everything to the west and north, would be left to indigenous people.

And of course, that was not the case.

But in 1795, that was the line.

even before the revolution, that's the kind of, we're going to draw a line and there'll be indigenous country on one side and settler colonialism on the other side.

And we do that.

Yeah, exactly right.

And then there's another treaty.

Yeah, I think one thing that that kind of fighting is going on from day one, right?

George Washington, as president, goes out and is fighting.

I mean, he's out there on western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

So this is why the U.S., why we have a standing army that gets started up after the war.

So we've got that piece.

And the Treaty of Greenville comes after a loss by indigenous people at Fallen Timbers.

That is ongoing.

There's a crew of historians who would argue that there's a 60-year war in the West.