Influenced by Tecumseh and his Indian Confederation, Walk-in-the Water sided with Tecumseh and the British, although he realized that he and his people were caught in a vise grip between two super powers. The Native American tribes were caught between the British and the Americans in the War of 1812 and were forced to choose sides. The Treaty of Greenville ended the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio County and redefined the boundary between Indian and white lands in the Northwest Territory. His name appears as one of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville signers, a Treaty that the Native American tribes signed after their loss in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. Walk-in-the-Water made passionate speeches and worked to help his people survive and prosper in their villages. He could smile with good nature and treat his fellow Wyandots kindly, but he could also fight as fiercely as a wolf.

Walk-in-the-Water grew tall, nearly six feet and stood arrow straight. By the early 1800s he lived in the Detroit River village of Maquaqa, the present site of Wyandotte, Michigan, in a village consisting of about twenty houses and at least 1,300 fellow Wyandots. Walk-in-the-Water was born in the late 1700s in the Great Lakes region. As well as their names, their lives and times are connected. Chief Tarhe had a daughter named Myeerah which means The White Crane and literally translated means Walk-in-the-Water. English tongues spoke and transcribed his name as Walk-in-the Water, a name that is connected to Tarhe, the Crane. Maera…Awmeyeeray…Mirahatha…The syllables of his Wyandotte name whisper in the winds blowing down the Detroit River to his Wyandot village. The struggle between the British and French for domination of the Ohio Country and the Mississippi Valley, and the fate of the Walk-in-the water, the first steamship on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan combined to make a human and historic drama as powerful as a Lake Erie storm tossing sand, shells, and waves on its beaches. Chief Walk-in-the-Water, Chief Tarhe, Isaac Zane, and Princes Myeerah Tarhe Zane, lived through their life stories along waterways including the Detroit, Potomac, Ohio, Thames, and Mad Rivers and Lake Erie.

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