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Trade, Religion, and War 18th century
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According to Pontiac, what did the Great Spirit instruct the Delaware Indians to do?
3Source: Mapping History Project, U. Oregon.
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Examples of decline
• Wampanoags (Mass.): from 2,500 in 1620 to 358 in 1763
• Catawbas (S. Carolina): from 5,000 in early 17th c. to 500 in mid 18th c.
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The Indian Slave Trade
Theodore de Bry’s depiction of Spanish slavery in Peru, 1596. Florida Museum of Natural History
6Source: Dr. John E. Worth, University of West Florida
Carolina settlers
Guns Indian slaves(Guales,
Timucuas,Chickasaws)
Jamaica
BarbadosWestosSavannahsYamasees
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• Tuscarora War 1711-1715-> 1,400 Tuscarora killed, 1,000 enslaved-> 2,000 joined Iroquois ‘Six Nations’
• Yamasee Revolt 1715-1716 -> Smaller tribes joined the Catawbas
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Iroquois Confederacy (Six Nations) = allied with British
Delaware
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The ‘Walking Purchase’ 1737
Source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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French forts, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River
Source: North Carolina Digital History
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
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Samson Occom
Source: Dartmouth College Library
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Neolin and Pontiac(19th century painting of Pontiac)
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Proclamation of 1763
Source: National Atlas of the United States of America (1970).
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Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
Source: National Park Service
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Portrait by George Romney, 1776. National Gallery of Canada
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)