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Treaty of Greenville
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Long before the name "Michigan" was used, the area was home to people today called Palaeo-Indians ("ancient Indians"), from about 14,000 years ago. We know almost nothing about these people, the languages they spoke, the names of their tribes, personal names and the elements of the their religion or even their diet.This lack of knowledge is simply because there was nobody around to write about them and they had no writing system of their own. All we can know is what is in the archaeological record. They were hunter-gatherers who lived in very small family groups, constantly moving from place to place - exactly as you would imagine a Neolithic people to live.These people were followed about 4,000 years ago by the Archaic culture (archaic simply means "old"); these people settled in villages and they began to use native copper.
As the US was expanding into areas controlled by the Shawnee and other tribes, Tecumseh realized that they had a common cause with each other, and with the British who were at war with the US. Tecumseh's role was to rally these tribes and convince them to ally with the British against the US.