Join us as Dr. John Bickers, an assistant professor of history at Case Western Reserve University and a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, shares information about the Indigenous nations' decisions leading up to the War of 1812. Following the Treaty of Greenville (1795), dozens of Indigenous nations across the Great Lakes region and the United States had agreed to a new peaceful alliance, which was intended to end the decades of warfare across the Ohio Country and provide space for Americans and Native peoples to live as neighbors. Learn about the violations of this treaty and the subsequent thought process as tribal nations and individual tribal citizens had to decide how best to respond, with accommodation to maintain peace or military resistance to protect their rights.

This program will take place in the Westerville Public Library meeting rooms