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[i]To me it depends on the time that this written document was written and this 'exchange' was brokered. If this agreement was entered into during the time when other tribes were being slaughtered in the West then it takes on the appearance of the Miami tribe taking the lesser of two evils and recieving compenstation for their land as opposed to facing annhilation.
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As clarification. Obviously the white and red man have had conflicts pretty much ever since the former landed on these shores.
However, when Miami of Ohio was founded in 1809 (just five years later than my Alma Mater), the conflicts to which you refer (which were around the time and just after the Civil War) had not yet begun. In fact, the Northwest Territory had just been established in 1787, and there weren't too many settlements West of this area at that point in time.
Indians (or Native Americans, if you will) played an important part in both sides of the War of 1812 -- which simple math tells me had not yet been fought yet.
Which is a very long way of saying that the campaigns to which I think Kitso refers were still several decades in the future at that time.