Ohio Country

The Ohio Country (sometimes named Ohio Territory ) was the name used at the 18th century to indicate the area of the North America, in the west of the the Appalachian Mountains in the area of high the Ohio in the south of the Lac Érié. One of the first area of the frontier of the the United States, it covered current the state of the Ohio, is Indiana, the west of the Pennsylvania and the North-West of the Western Virginia. The colonization of this area was the main cause of the Guerre free-Indian and a starting factor of the Guerre of independence of the United States of America.

History

Colonial time

With the XVIIe century, the territory in the north of the Ohio river was occupied by the Shawnee S of expression algonquienne. About 1660, during a conflict known under the name of Wars franco-iroquoises, the Iroquois took the control of Ohio Country, by driving out Shawnees and absorbing the tribe of Ériés. Ohio Country remained almost uninhabited during decades and was mainly a territory of hunting for Iroquois.

In the years 1720, many groups of Indians migrated to Ohio Country. About 1724, the Indiens Delaware established the village of Kittanning on the river Allegheny today in Western Pennsylvania. Delawares were constrained with the migration because of the expansion of the European colonies in Eastern Pennsylvania. With them those came from Shawnees which had settled in the east. Of another bands of the dispersed tribe of Shawnees began a return in Ohio Country at the time of the decades following. Number of Senecas and other Iroquois also migrated to Ohio Country, fleeing the competitions of the French and British imperialists in the south of the Lake Ontario.

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