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Resistance, War, and Expansion, Page 6

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.

  1. Acceptance of  the settlers’ culture
  2. Assimilation (the process in which one culture merges into and becomes part of another)
  3. Return to traditional Native American traditions
  4. War Little Turtle

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.