Editing Northwest Ordinance (section)

===Effects on Native Americans===
In two parts, the Northwest Ordinance mentions the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] within the region. One pertains to the demarcation of counties and townships out of lands that the Indians were regarded as having lost or relinquished title:

{{quotation|Section 8. For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject, however, to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature.<ref>[http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=8&page=transcript Transcript of the Northwest Ordinance – 1787. ''An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio'']. Section 8. Retrieved March 21, 2014.</ref>}}

The other describes the preferred relationship with the Indians:

{{quotation|Article III.  Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.<ref>[http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=8&page=transcript Transcript of the Northwest Ordinance – 1787. ''An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio'']. Section 14, Article 3. Retrieved March 21, 2014</ref>}}

Many Native Americans in Ohio who were not parties refused to acknowledge treaties signed after the Revolutionary War that ceded lands north of the Ohio River inhabited by them to the United States. In a conflict sometimes known as the [[Northwest Indian War]], [[Blue Jacket]] of the [[Shawnee]]s and [[Little Turtle]] of the [[Miami people|Miamis]] formed a confederation to stop white expropriation of the territory. After the Indian confederation killed more than 800 soldiers in two battles, the worst defeats ever suffered by the United States in conflicts with Indigenous nations, U.S. President [[George Washington]] assigned General [[Anthony Wayne]] command of a [[Legion of the United States|new army]], which eventually defeated the confederation and allowed [[European Americans]] to continue to settle the territory.