47 The Northwest Indian War 1785-1795

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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🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Following the American Revolution dozens of Indigenous Nations are left to fend for themselves as British support evaporated. But from 1791 to 1792 the Ohio peoples would win battle after battle and not just win in those conflicts but wipeout entire American Armies.

Sources:

The Presidentail Papers of President George Washington

The Papers of Sec. of War Henry Knox

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

SIMON GIRTY - WILDERNESS WARRIOR BY EDWARD BUTTS

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Andrew, and this is Caleb, and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.
0:24.6	Now, this episode is going to be a little different than something we may have done in the past, and you might be thinking, how is it different?
0:33.3	Well, this time we're going to be covering the Northwest Indian War, and the episode is not going to be Iroquois-centric, although they're going to be involved in the diplomacy and on the peripherals, but when the main climax happened, we're going to find them kind of hiding off to the side, trying not to get involved.
0:52.1	So Andrew and I almost skipped this whole war here, but it kind of set up
0:57.2	where we wanted to go with the episode coming out in two weeks. So we decided to put this one together.
1:02.9	Some of our fans, Andrew will really enjoy this because I had, I think, three different people
1:07.1	from Ohio write us in this week and say how much they love the Ohio Indian history
1:13.7	and all the they said that you know they read about it all the times and here we go we're
1:18.1	going to talk about it the Northwest Indian War which was also known for a long time as Little
1:22.7	Turtles War so when we left off last time we had the Treaty of Paris in 1783 that was signed after
1:29.3	the American Revolution was officially over. The British ended up abandoning all of the Native
1:34.8	allies, and they ceded all the land up to the Mississippi River to the United States. And the
1:41.3	Americans are looking at themselves thinking, okay, cool, we've just doubled the size
1:45.7	of our nation, and it's ours now because we won the war. Back in the day, the term right of conquest
1:52.3	was a legal term in their mind. To the Native Americans living within the territory where no
1:57.8	white people were to be found, they thought quite differently of this rule.
2:01.9	And now realizing that a lot of people are starting to encroach more and more on their lands into the
2:06.5	Ohio territory, a lot of these nations want war, but others are looking for peace.
2:12.9	So in 1783, Joseph Brandt traveled to Sandusky, Ohio for a massive conference.
2:19.0	On September 7th, he spoke to a pan-Indian council of wind on Delaware, Shawnees, Cherokee's,
2:24.0	Ojibwas, Ottawa's, and Mingoes.
2:26.3	And Simon Gertie was also there as interpreter.
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