A History of Native America
Contact and Cultural Exchange
Maeve Kane
mkane2@albany.edu
First half
- early contacts and disease
- early trade
- what does colonialism look like?
Edenic landscapes
North America, 1750
North America, 1750
Middle Ground Diplomacy
- mutually agreed upon rituals of exchange
- trade is diplomacy and diplomacy is trade
- integration of captives, adoptees, and partners
- role of free & enslaved African Americans (The Sunfish)
- male mediators, female convertors
Fort Hunter, 1745
Second half
- French and Indian War, 1754-1763
- American Revolution in Iroquoia
- Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
Fort Necessity, 1754
Mohawk Valley
- 1710 Palatine refugee immigration
- Palatine vs. English Albany conflict
- German settlers as English ally or barrier?
- renting land as land claim security
- renting land as control over white settlement
French and Indian War, 1754-1763
- Iroquois trade vs Iroquois smuggling
- Kahnawake, Akwasasne, and Iroquoia
- Iroquois as English ally or barrier?
- English fear of further frontier warfare
- Proclamation of 1763, English as American ally or barrier?
1779 Sullivan Campaign
- Iroquois neutrality early in American Revolution
- Oneida allied with Americans but not against other Iroquois
- 1777 Battle of Oriskany, rumors of cannibalism
1779 Sullivan Campaign
- Fort Hunter and Canajoharie Committee of Safety raids
- "a war against vegetables" = hundreds of thousands of bushels
- post-war erasure of women and refugee issues
- "made to discover some signs of repentance"
Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
- Northwest Indian War, 1783-1795
- punitive or peacemaking?
- first US treaty with a nation other than Britain
- what is the role of women?
- why does Jesus show up in Rochester???
Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
- oldest continually observed treaty
- treaties are on par with US Constitution
- security of Iroquois lands
- safe travel between reservations and across US/Canada border