33 Guyasuta and Pontiac's War

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

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🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

With the Seven Years War winding down. Jeffery Amherst the British Commander-in-Chief of North America has to reduce spending drastically. One of the things he cuts to almost zero is the budget for allied Native Nations. Also colonists begin pouring into the west in violation to the Treaty of Easton. A Seneca man named Guyasuta will try to resist these encroachments and a prophet named Neolin will inspire a pan-indigenous revival which in turn inspires an Ottawa man named Obwandiyag to drive out the British from the Great Lakes. The British however called him Pontiac.

Sources:

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

GUYASUTA AND THE FALL OF INDIAN AMERICA BY BRADY J. CRYTZER

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. I'm Andrew.
0:26.6	And I'm Caleb. And sorry for the long delay since our last episode. You may remember that Andrew just had a small little girl several months ago. And now my wife and I have just given birth to a small little boy.
0:39.4	So I now have two boys under two and Andrew has two boys and a girl under four.
0:44.2	So a lot of little cotter babies running around these days.
0:47.6	But welcome to episode 33, Kaya Suta and Pontiac's War.
0:52.1	If you recall in our last episode, the British are finally able to become masters of North America
0:57.6	because they make all these deals and treaties with the indigenous peoples to shore up their
1:03.0	western flank and therefore they're able to attack Canada, totally driving the French out,
1:08.4	and now British people and indigenous Native Americans can live in peace forever, just like they promised.
1:15.8	And they did drive the French leadership out, but many of the French Canadian civilians were able to stay.
1:22.3	And we're not just talking up in Canada.
1:24.5	There was actually still a lot of them out in the Ohio country.
1:27.8	If you remember, Caleb, the whole reason this war kind of got kicked off was because British
1:33.6	people were looking to the Ohio River country to try and settle new people there and get
1:39.1	huge landholding companies to divvy up the land. And now that the war is over, the poorest of the poor people
1:45.2	that are looking for a chance at a new life, they don't really have anything, and there's extremely
1:50.3	cheap land to the west, because, again, nobody lives there but Indians, so it's perfectly fine
1:56.5	now, because the French are gone. And so to the native people beyond this quote unquote border,
2:02.6	they start seeing a huge wave of illegal immigration coming across into their lands and they don't
2:08.3	know how to stop it. And then the other shoe drops. Because you see at the start of this war,
2:13.2	the British debt was about 74 million pounds. And by the end of the war, it was 122 million pounds.
2:21.3	So when you have a massive debt like that, you gotta find some way to pay for it.
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