On 5 February 1812 a group of Wyandot or Huron native chiefs (likely led by Tarhe and Walk-In-The-Water) petition the United States government to protect their government sanctioned lands near Brownstown and Monguagon south of Detroit and Sandwich. Part of their petition reads as follows:

Fathers, listen! If you really want to ameliorate our condition, let us have the land given to us; we have built valuable houses, and improvements on the same; we have learned the use of the plough; but now we are told we are to be turned off the land in fifty years.

Fathers, listen! This has given us great uneasiness; This pretence of bettering our situation, it appears, is only for a temporary purpose: for, should we live on the land for fifty years, as farmers, and then be turned off, we will be very miserable indeed. By that time, we shall have forgot how to hunt, in which practice we are now very expert, and then you’ll turn us out of doors, a poor, pitiful, helpless set of wretches.…

Source: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, volume 1 (Washington, D.C.: Gale & Seaton, 1832).

This Tribe living primarily in Maguagon and Brownstown are the descendants of the Wendat Alliance shattered by war with the Iroquois Confederacy a hundred years earlier.

During the war Roundhead was already a very close ally of Tecumseh but fellow chiefs, The Crane and Walk in the Water had signed the Treaty of Greenville and thus were the enemy of his confederacy and fought along side the American Army of the Northwest.