Council Oak Highland cemetary South Bend Indiana

Council Oak Highland cemetery South Bend Indiana

• Highland cemetery South bend Indiana
• La Salle passes this ancient tree in 1679 on his passage from St Joseph River to kankakee River
• Came here again 1861 sign treaty with miami Indians
• Miami natives originally lived in Indiana, Illinois, and southern Michigan
•  moved into the Maumee Valley around 1700
• became the most powerful American Indian tribe in Ohio
• related to the Delaware (Lenape), the Ottawa, and the Shawnee
•  Miami were allies of the French until British traders moved into the Ohio Country, around 1740
• Little Turtle was a great leader of the Miamis, with affiliations to the Eel River tribe
• General Anthony Wayne defeated the Miamis and other American Indians with Ohio lands at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794
• Miamis, along with other American Indians living in Ohio, were forced to surrender most of their Ohio lands with the signing of the Treaty of Greenville