History of Indiana
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The history of human activity in Indiana, a U.S. state in the Midwest, stems back to the migratory tribes of Native Americans who inhabited Indiana as early as 8000 BC. Tribes succeeded one another in
View of Mound A at Angel Mounds
Native Americans guide French explorers through Indiana as depicted by Maurice Thompson in Stories of Indiana.
Clark's march to Vincennes, by F. C. Yohn
William Henry Harrison, the 1st Governor of Indiana Territory from 1801 to 1812, and the 9th President of the United States
Indiana Territory
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The Indiana Territory, officially the Territory of Indiana, was created by an organic act that President John Adams signed into law on May 7, 1800, to form an organized incorporated territory of the U
Anthony Wayne negotiating with the Northwestern Indian Confederacy in the Treaty of Greenville
Grouseland, the home of Governor William Henry Harrison
At Vincennes in 1810, Tecumseh lost his temper when William Henry Harrison refused to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne.