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Did a complete rewrite of this page, which was based on entirely false information. There was never an organized territory called the Ohio Territory, except in that the particular name was used as synonymous with the Northwest Territory. When the the NW was divided in 1800, the western half became the new Indiana Territory but the eastern half was still the "Territory North and West of the Ohio River", with the same territorial government.
The broadest use of the term "Ohio Territory" is in the colloquial sense, refering the area of the Northwest Territory, even before the Revolutionary War. Being so, I rewrote the article to reflect that. It overlaps some with the NW Terr and NW Ordinance articles, some of the material of which can perhaps be removed to make those articles more specific to those subjects. --- Decumanus | Talk 07:47, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Sigh. I always get frustrated when I put an entry in the wikipedia search feature, an article comes up, but my question is still not answered. I put OHio Valley in the search feature, and this article came up. Yes, the history of the old NW Territory is interesting. But, where is the Ohio Valley? That is my question. Is it along the Ohio River only? How is it defined? So, in terms of Topography or Cartography, where exactly is it? Whole state of Ohio? L. Thomas W. ( talk) 14:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC) L. Thomas W. L. Thomas W. ( talk) 14:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
The Shawnee were not in what is present day Ohio until after 1660's. The Siouan people occupied the Ohio Valley at that time and had done so since leaving Cahokia. See the Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin Map of 1684 which was based on Franquelin's survey of the Ohio region between 1772 and 1780.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Louis_Franquelin
by Dr. Rankin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.6.53.203 ( talk) 16:29, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Also see Swanton, "Siouan Tribes and the Ohio Valley",
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/662865?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101119587731 — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.6.53.203 (
talk)
16:39, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
You can access this full article here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1943.45.1.02a00050/pdf
This article is missing information about French colonial period. |
This article is almost completely lacking in the French period of colonial rule -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 15:04, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
I once added a sentence that the name of 'Ohio' country was taken from the name of the resident river, a name that the Indians had given it, and the text was stricken. So, the implication is that the name of Ohio Country was NOT taken from the name of the Ohio River!? Then propose, from whence it came. There is dispute over what Indian dialect the name may have come from and what it meant, but the whiteman did NOT name that river. So can we insert some bland assertion like: "The name of the country was taken from the name of the river, a name which was given it by the resident Indian tribes, and which in colonial English, was spelled 'Ohio'". Or write something yourself. Sbalfour ( talk) 22:13, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I might add, that the river was known by the same phonetic name, however spelled, since before the time of La Salle; that is, before whitemen entered the Ohio Valley. And La Salle referred explicitly to the "falls of the Ohio", among other place names. And the name of the Ohio River valley, and lands beyond were soon referred to by other explorers, by that name. Sbalfour ( talk)!
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Did a complete rewrite of this page, which was based on entirely false information. There was never an organized territory called the Ohio Territory, except in that the particular name was used as synonymous with the Northwest Territory. When the the NW was divided in 1800, the western half became the new Indiana Territory but the eastern half was still the "Territory North and West of the Ohio River", with the same territorial government.
The broadest use of the term "Ohio Territory" is in the colloquial sense, refering the area of the Northwest Territory, even before the Revolutionary War. Being so, I rewrote the article to reflect that. It overlaps some with the NW Terr and NW Ordinance articles, some of the material of which can perhaps be removed to make those articles more specific to those subjects. --- Decumanus | Talk 07:47, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Sigh. I always get frustrated when I put an entry in the wikipedia search feature, an article comes up, but my question is still not answered. I put OHio Valley in the search feature, and this article came up. Yes, the history of the old NW Territory is interesting. But, where is the Ohio Valley? That is my question. Is it along the Ohio River only? How is it defined? So, in terms of Topography or Cartography, where exactly is it? Whole state of Ohio? L. Thomas W. ( talk) 14:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC) L. Thomas W. L. Thomas W. ( talk) 14:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
The Shawnee were not in what is present day Ohio until after 1660's. The Siouan people occupied the Ohio Valley at that time and had done so since leaving Cahokia. See the Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin Map of 1684 which was based on Franquelin's survey of the Ohio region between 1772 and 1780.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Louis_Franquelin
by Dr. Rankin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.6.53.203 ( talk) 16:29, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Also see Swanton, "Siouan Tribes and the Ohio Valley",
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/662865?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101119587731 — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.6.53.203 (
talk)
16:39, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
You can access this full article here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1943.45.1.02a00050/pdf
This article is missing information about French colonial period. |
This article is almost completely lacking in the French period of colonial rule -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 15:04, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
I once added a sentence that the name of 'Ohio' country was taken from the name of the resident river, a name that the Indians had given it, and the text was stricken. So, the implication is that the name of Ohio Country was NOT taken from the name of the Ohio River!? Then propose, from whence it came. There is dispute over what Indian dialect the name may have come from and what it meant, but the whiteman did NOT name that river. So can we insert some bland assertion like: "The name of the country was taken from the name of the river, a name which was given it by the resident Indian tribes, and which in colonial English, was spelled 'Ohio'". Or write something yourself. Sbalfour ( talk) 22:13, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I might add, that the river was known by the same phonetic name, however spelled, since before the time of La Salle; that is, before whitemen entered the Ohio Valley. And La Salle referred explicitly to the "falls of the Ohio", among other place names. And the name of the Ohio River valley, and lands beyond were soon referred to by other explorers, by that name. Sbalfour ( talk)!