Native American Alliances
This Native American confederacy split during the Revolutionary War, with different nations supporting either the British or the Americans.
Iroquois Confederacy
The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the war but failed to include any representation from these groups.
Native Americans
This powerful tribe largely sided with the British, seeing them as a better option to stop American expansion into their lands.
the Mohawks
After the war, Native Americans lost much of this, especially in the Northwest Territory.
Land
This Mohawk military and political leader allied with the British and led raids against American settlements.
Joseph Brant
The British handed over Native American land without consent through this treaty.
the Treaty of Paris
The Oneida tribe broke from the rest of the Iroquois Confederacy by supporting this side in the Revolutionary War.
American side (Patriots)
The Proclamation of 1763, which tried to limit westward expansion, was ignored after this war.
the Revolutionary War
The British hoped their alliance with Native tribes would help them control this vast territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Ohio River Valley
This term describes how Native American alliances were often ignored or betrayed by both the British and Americans after the war.
What is abandonment (or betrayal)