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America and the Six Nations: Native Americans after the Revolution

Advisor: Taylor, Alan (NHC Fellow, 1993–94)

By Cave, Karen Carroll (NHC Education Digital Projects Coordinator, 2016–18)

Native Americans were not included in the Treaty of Paris (1783), which concluded the American Revolution. The end of fighting presented them with a difficult path as they struggled to protect their homelands from their growing insignificance within the shifting international politics of eighteenth-century America.

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Political Science / History / Education Studies / Speeches / Seneca People / Indigenous Americans / Iroquois / American Revolution / Primary Sources /