("Yankee Doodle") - [Narrator] How did the end of the Revolution increase tensions between the US and Native Americans?

The 1783 peace agreement between the US and Great Britain ceded a huge amount of northwestern land to the Americans.

So after the Revolutions, Americans began western expansion.

But the land that was ceded didn't belong to the British.

It belonged to Native tribes.

This became the catalyst for the Northwestern Indian Wars.

(guns cracking) Indigenous American tribes successfully unified, fighting for decades in several battles to resist US encroachment of their land.

But in 1794, their confederacy ended after the US victory at Fallen Timbers.

Today, Native Americans continue to fight for their land and right for independence, just as early Americans did 250 years ago.

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