SUMMARYOne wave, 1790–1804: the Western Confederacy, the southern nations, Ayiti and the Caribbean (Nov 4, 2026). Tito: "We need to connect the Western Confederacy, southern, Haiti and Caribbean... assuming French territories were really just indigenous lands and only a few small points were taken." RECORD, the French map was posts, not people: French "Louisiana" was a claim over the nations' lands held through a handful of posts (New Orleans, Mobile, Natchitoches, Kaskaskia, Detroit, Vincennes). France's settler population there was small (often given as a few thousand by 1763; verify). RECORD, the wave: August 1791, the uprising in northern Ayiti; November 4, 1791, the confederacy destroys St. Clair at the Wabash; 1776–94, the Chickamauga Cherokee under Dragging Canoe (died 1792) hold the Tennessee valley; 1790, the Muscogee under Alexander McGillivray treat with the US as a nation (Treaty of New York); 1795, Fédon's war in Grenada, the Second Carib War in St. Vincent (Garifuna under Joseph Chatoyer, who was killed in 1795; the Garifuna were deported to Roatán in 1797), the Second Maroon War in Jamaica (the Trelawny Maroons were deported to Nova Scotia, then Sierra Leone), and the Pointe Coupée conspiracy in Louisiana; 1802–03, Ayiti destroys Leclerc's army; April 1803, Napoleon sells the Louisiana claim; January 1, 1804, Ayiti declares independence. RECORD, the hinge: Napoleon's loss in Ayiti is the standard explanation for why France sold Louisiana. Ayiti's victory moved the paper claim to the whole Mississippi interior, the lands the confederacy held, to the US. RECORD, direct links: Tecumseh travelled south to the Muscogee in 1811 (the Red Stick movement followed). Victor Hugues, the French revolutionary commissioner in Guadeloupe, supplied Fédon and the Garifuna
PATTERNin one decade, the nations and peoples from the Ohio to the Caribbean resisted the same powers at the same time, and the Ayiti victory turned into a paper transfer of the interior
LENS (WW9)one land, one resistance, from the Ohio to Ayiti
OPENany direct contact between the confederacy, the southern nations and Ayiti (messengers, trade, kin); Ayiti's own records and oral history of the mainland. Needs deep research.