Limited Choices for Native Americans
With the encroachment of their land, and being further repressed with the Treaty of Greenville, the Native Americans had only a few possible solutions in handling their white counterparts.
- Acceptance of the settlers’ culture
- Assimilation (the process in which one culture merges into and becomes part of another)
- Return to traditional Native American traditions
- War
Little Turtle, the leader of the Miami people who lived in what is now northern Indiana, chose to peacefully coexist with the settlers. Although a strong military leader who is credited with several victories against the settlers in the 1790s, he devoted the rest of his life to adopting many of their cultural traits.