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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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Ohio Valley

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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)