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Chronology 1784 Treaty with the Six Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga, and Tuscarora) with the United States. The Iroquois Confederacy cedes its claims to the Ohio Territory. 1785 Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw establishes limited boundaries for their hunting grounds and sacred lands. Limited land boundaries were agreed upon, with the result being a major western expansion for whites. 1786 Treaty with the Shawnee and United States acknowledges Shawnee lands in western Ohio. In return, the Shawnee must return any hostages and alert the United States of any pending attacks. After the American Revolutionary War, thousands of whites began to invade Shawnee lands that were guaranteed by the treaty. War erupted, and the defeat of the Shawnee propelled their removal. 1789 Treaty with the Six Nations, the Treaty of Fort Harmar, was an agreement between the U.S. government and the Iroquois Confederacy, the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Sauk, and others. The purpose was to renegotiate the Treaty of Fort McIntosh of 1785. Tribes were forced to give up lands in Ohio. The treaty divided the Northwestern Territory into two parts: Indian Territory and a territory for whites. 1794 Treaty with the Six Nations, Treaty of Canandaigua, was an agreement between the United States and Iroquois Confederacy. 1802 Ohio becomes a state. 1803 The Treaty of Fort Wayne cedes Potawatomi lands in Illinois and Indiana. The United States pays $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, lands that France claimed. President Thomas Jefferson suggests that tribes could remove to these lands to avoid white violence and acculturate at their own pace. Small groups move west to the Arkansas River in 1810 and 1817–1819. 1805 Georgia holds eight lotteries to distribute confi scated lands of the Cherokees and Creeks from 1805 through 1833. Choctaw chiefs were coerced to sign the Treaty of Mount Dexter, ceding over 4 million acres. 1810 The Ogden Land Company confi scates Indian lands near Buffalo, New York, in a fraudulent treaty. 1812 Louisiana becomes a state. 1814 Major General Andrew Jackson fi ghts the Red Stick (Upper Town) Creek in Alabama culminating in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend near the Georgia border. The Red Stick Rebellion resisted white encroachment in Creek towns. Treaty of Fort Jackson concludes the Red Stick War, a forced land cession of 20 million acres of Creek lands.