For the Indians of the old Northwest, between the Ohio and 
Mississippi rivers, the end of the Revolutionary War did not end the 
fighting. The Wyandot tribe, for example, had sided with the British 
during the war, and they did not wholeheartedly support American 
treaties signed at Forts McIntosh(1785) and Finney(1786). A treaty 
signed at Fort Harmar (shown here) in 1789 by the Wyandot, 
Delaware, Potawatomi,Ottawa, and Sauk tribes confirmed the land 
cession and payment terms of these earlier treaties, and 
demonstrating that the United States was now more interested in 
purchasing land from the Indians peacefully than seizing it by force. 
This belated change of policy only fostered distrust among the tribes, 
leading to more conflicts on the 1790s.