<P> The Five Nations enlarged their territory by right of conquest . The number of tribes paying tribute to them realigned the tribal map of eastern North America . Several large confederacies were destroyed or relocated, including the Huron, Neutral, Erie, Susquehannock and Shawnee . The Five Nations pushed several other eastern tribes to and even across the Mississippi River . The Ohio country was virtually emptied, as the defeated tribes fled west to escape the Five Nations warriors . After the Five Nations' warriors were defeated, they left much of the Northwest territory, Kentucky and Ohio almost unpopulated and with abandoned villages . They had claimed the entire Ohio Valley as their own country . </P> <P> After about 1700, some remnants of the Native American tribes began returning to the Northwest Territory . They were often conglomerations of several tribes who paid tribute to the Five Nations (see also Mingo). </P> <P> Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, both Britain and France claimed ownership of the Ohio Country, in competition with the Five Nations (who became the "Six Nations" after the admission of the Tuscarora in 1722), and by the mid-18th century both had sent merchants and fur traders into the area to trade with local Natives, the actual inhabitants of the territory . Violence quickly erupted . During the French and Indian War, an extension in North America of the Seven Years' War in Europe, Indian tribes allied with either the French or British, often depending on trading priorities, and warred with each other and the colonists . France was defeated and relinquished all its territorial claims to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763 . </P> <P> The British still faced opposition from numerous Native American tribes, including in the Great Lakes region: the Ottawa, Ojibwa, Pottawatomi, and Huron; in the eastern Illinois Country: the Miami, Wea, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Piankashaw; and in the Ohio Country: the Delaware (Lenape), Shawnee, Mingo, and Wyandot . The tribes were angered by the arrogance of British colonial officials, who treated them like defeated subjects, and concerned by the growing threat of British colonials moving to settle in their territories . They attacked in Pontiac's Rebellion of 1763--66, when the Native Americans burned several British forts on their land . They killed and drove many settlers out of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes territory . In response, Britain sent troops to reinforce Fort Pitt, which ultimately succeeded despite an ambush by the Natives in the nearby Battle of Bushy Run . The war petered out without a clear winner . The Natives remained and yet had not managed to drive British colonial forces out of their territory . </P>

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