Northeast Ohio History as a Microcosm of Civilization

Indians in the Old Northwest were stuck in the classic rock & hardplace scenario. Their way of life couldn't work with the agricultural methods and methods of organizing society that new settlers engaged in, but they had no chance of military victory against the new United States. In spite of that, they repeatedly sought relief through alliances with European "allies".

The European powers couldn't actually help them, and would only use them as pawns the same way dumb religious zealot mercenaries are used in the Middle East today. In retrospect, it's obvious that engaging with the United States as collectives (tribes) rather than as individuals--citizens--made it much easier to undermine and destroy them as a people. (Black people in the United States have followed the same flawed strategy since emancipation.)

The problem the Indians faced in the Ohio Territory is similar to the problem everyone in the Western World faces today. The Indians confronted a system but could only see people. Lashing out at individual families brought the Indians more grief and hastened their demise and expulsion from their lands.

Likewise, today, we might see "the problem" as Oligarchy, but Oligarchs are really just cogs in the system the same way some poor bastard working in an Amazon warehouse is.