His followers settled at Prophetstown in Indiana Territory, leading to Tecumseh's War and the Northwest theater of the War of 1812. United States settlement continued, fueling Indian removals and conflicts in the Northwest Territory well into the 1830s. These include the Black Hawk War and the Potawatomi Trail of Death. Wisconsin, the last state fully located in the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the union in 1848. The process of acquiring cheap land and selling it to white settlers was a critical means of paying off the United States' national debt in the 1830s. Before his death, Little Turtle lamented "More of us have died since the Treaty of Greenville than we lost by the years of war before." Contributors to the Journal of Genocide Research characterize the United States' campaigns in the Northwest Territory as attempted genocide, citing descriptions by Secretary of War Henry Knox of the Shawnee, Cherokee, and Wabash as "banditti" and subsequent orders to "extirpate, utterly, if possible, the said banditti." They argue that the ultimate goal of Knox and other American officials was to depopulate the region of Native Americans and open up its lands to white settlement. Key figures Several veterans of the Northwest Indian War are known for their later achievements, including William Henry Harrison, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, and Tecumseh. William Wells, who fought on both sides of the war, later died at the Battle of Fort Dearborn. United States Henry Knox, first United States Secretary of War Josiah Harmar, Brigadier General in command of the First American Regiment who led the 1790 Harmar campaign Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory and Major General at St. Clair's defeat Anthony Wayne, Major General in command of Legion of the United States at the Battle of Fallen Timbers Charles Scott, Brigadier General commanding the Kentucky militia during Wayne's campaign James Wilkinson, Lieutenant Colonel in command of Fort Washington, Wayne's second in command and Spanish spy United Indian Nations Little Turtle (Miami) Blue Jacket (Shawnee) Buckongahelas (Delaware) Roundhead, (or Stayeghtha) (Wyandot) Egushawa (Odawa) Joseph Brant (Mohawk) British Empire Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester Commander-in-Chief of British North America William Campbell, British Major in command of Fort Miamis John Graves Simcoe Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Alexander McKee Deputy Agent and later Deputy Superintendent General in the British Indian Department See also Cherokee–American wars, corresponding war in the Old Southwest Notes Citations References