How did the land end up with the U.S. Army?

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Before the U.S. Army killed him in 1813, Tecumseh said all the Native American nations should “unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.”

He said nobody “has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers—those who want all and will not do with less.”
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