, and others.es, chippewas, potawatomis, and s, chippewas, potawatomis, and others. relatively diverse population of native groups. when we talk about the ohio indians, we are talking about a diverse array of peoples that had not functioned together -- they were not a coherent political unit. they had not operated together for a very long time at the time of the revolution. and the revolution forced them to make new kinds of collective choices in response to the pressures of that war. they had relied on a pattern of trade with pennsylvania, an alliance both with pennsylvania and really with each other for a number of years without really having further coalesced as any kind of a political unit. and then this was the group, of course, that was directly attacked by virginia militia in dunmoore's war in 1774, particularly the shawnees who he thought was the more hostile of these groups and the shawnees were engaged in the one battle at point pleasant in 1774. remember that dunn moore's war, that kentucky was open to settlement. so, one of the oddities of the american re