Louisiana and Aaron Burr 377 



are now northern Illinois and Wisconsin. The 

 southern Indians also surrendered much territory, 

 in various treaties. Georgia got control of much of 

 the Indian land within her State limits. All the 

 country between Knoxville and Nashville became 

 part of Tennessee, so that the eastern and middle 

 portions of the State were no longer sundered by 

 a jutting fragment of wilderness, infested by In- 

 dian war parties whenever there were hostilities 

 with the savages. The only Indian lapds in Ten- 

 nessee or Kentucky were those held by the Chicka- 

 saws, between the Tennessee and the Mississippi ; 

 and the Chickasaws were friendly to the Americans. 



Year by year the West grew better able to defend 

 itself if attacked, and more formidable in the event 

 of its being- necessary to undertake offensive war- 

 fare. Kentucky and Tennessee had become populous 

 States, no longer fearing Indian inroads, but able on 

 the contrary to equip powerful armies for the aid of 

 the settlers in the more scantily peopled regions 

 north and south of them. Ohio was also growing 

 steadily; and in the territory of Indiana, including 

 what is now Illinois and the territory of Missis- 

 sippi, including what is now northern Alabama, 

 there were already many settlers. 



Nevertheless the shadow of desperate war hung 

 over the West. Neither the northern nor the south- 

 ern Indians were yet subdued; sullen and angry 

 they watched the growth of the whites, alert to seize 

 a favorable moment to make one last appeal to arms 

 before surrendering their hunting grounds. More- 



