 The Jesuit priests were expelled, and no provisional government was established; the British hoped the French in the area would leave.Many did leave, but the British gradually became more accommodating to the French who remained and continued the fur trade with the Native American nations.Formal use of the word "Indiana" dates from 1768, when a Philadelphia-based trading company gave their land claim in the present-day state of West Virginia the name of Indiana in honor of its previous owners, the Iroquois.