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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 7479362" data-attributes="member: 6943731">Europeans hunted too, most Native Americans lived in towns and farmed, long before the Europeans came. I live in Indiana, a place named for the amount of Native Americans living here, the town here was called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouiatenon" target="_blank">Ouiatenon</a> or "Wea-Town" and before the US Army came through  and burned their fields of crops and the town, there were an estimated 20-30,000 people here.On 9 March 1791, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox issued orders from President George Washington to Brigadier General Charles Scott of Kentucky to lead a punitive expedition against the Wea settlements in the Wabash Valley. Just after noon on 1 June 1791, Scott with a force of 33 officers and 760 mounted Kentucky volunteers crested High Gap Hill and entered the Wea Plains. Perceiving two villages to the northwest, at two miles (3 km) and four miles (6 km) out, Scott sent a small detachment under Colonel John Hardin to destroy them while he and the bulk of his force continued north toward the main Ouiatenon village near the mouth of Wea Creek, where the smoke of cooking fires could be seen. Rounding the fringe of trees at the bend in Wea Creek, Scott's forces found the Ouiatenon town in the bottom land near the Wabash and descended upon it, causing panic amongst the inhabitants. Some in canoes tried to escape to the Kickapoo village opposite, but were killed by riflemen before reaching the opposite shore; 41 women and children were taken prisoner; the remainder were killed, dispersed or escaped. Scott burned the town and several hundred acres of growing corn.They were anything but Hunter Gatherers. Someone from the historical society said that the Army let the blacksmith and his family leave.</blockquote>

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