1) The document outlines several conflicts between Native American tribes and European colonists in North America from the early 1600s to the late 1700s. 2) It describes wars like King Philip's War and the Pequot War, in which eastern tribes like the Wampanoags and Pequots fought against colonists from New England. 3) The document also discusses the French and Indian War, noting how different tribes allied with either the French or British, and the aftermath of this war led to Britain gaining control over North America while deeply indebting itself.

1. Native Americans
Colonial Era relationships

4. Things don’t go well
Early relationships

5. Pocahontas story
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6. Early Wars 1620-30s
Tidewater Wars-VA
colonists vs.
Powhatans.
Bacon’s Rebellion;
Powhatans placed on
reservations-lost all
lands.
Pequot War-MA
colonists vs Pequots
Other NA tribes ally
vs. Pequots
Pequots not killed
enslaved and shipped
to Bermuda.

7. King Philip’s War 1675-76
● Metacom-Leader of Wampanoags, angered by Puritan
conversions of his people
● Tries to forge NA alliance of all NE tribes.
● New England colonists fight back
● 7 out of 8 Natives in New England were killed (6 out of
13 colonists also died)
● Metacom was killed- drawn and quartered and his head
put on display outside Plymouth.
● Braintree High’s mascot: “The Wamps”

8. Tuscarora War 1711-1715
● North Carolina colonists vs. Tuscarora
● Colonists keep raiding Tuscarora for slaves
● Tuscarora fight back
● NC allies with another tribe to hunt and kill
Tuscarora
● Tuscarora placed on a reservation

9. Yemassee War 1715-1717
● South Carolina colonists vs. Yemassee and
Red Stick (Ochose) Creeks.
● Yemassee and Ochose had a policy of killing
all white settlers they encountered.
● South Carolina militia organizes to fight
back.
● Yemassee driven out, join the Seminoles in
Florida.

10. Mid to late 1700s
Native Americans mostly removed/pacified
along the coast inland to the Appalachian
Mountains

11. We have French vs. British fighting
● Both sides have colonists, but not many
● Both sides have soldiers, but not many
● Both sides have Native American tribes in
“their” territories.
● Native American tribes get involved as allies
on both sides
○ Now why would they do that?

13. Three approaches to these alliances
French
● Trading partners
● Military allies
British
● Savages
● Useful, but not
needed
Native
● Supplies of
weapons
● Source of wealth
● Source of captives
● Way to keep
settlers from their
lands

14. Native Americans take sides
French
● Wabanaki Confederacy,
Algonquin tribes,
Abenaki, Míkmaq,
Mohawk, Lenape,
Ojibwa, Ottawa,
Shawnee, and Wyando
tribes
British-Colonists
● the Iroquois
Confederacy,
Onondaga, Oneida,
Seneca, Tuscarora,
Mohawk, Cayuga,
Catawba and Cherokee
tribes

15. War
● Over control of the Ohio River Valley region
● 1754 Britain sends Lt. George Washington
and some soldiers to tell the French to get
out. He loses.
● 1756 war is declared. Britain lures away
French allies, and France retreats into
Canada where it loses to the British-
Colonial-Native alliance.

16. War
● Fighting is brutal--lots of nastiness all around
● Colonists think they need to get together
about this.
● 8 colonies sent representatives to meet in
Albany to try and form some kind of union to
coordinate their soldiers.
○ Fail.
○ But Ben Franklin makes a cool cartoon...

18. Aftermath
● France, Britain and Spain send
representatives to negotiate the Treaty of
Paris. (Notice who is not included…)
● North America is re-partitioned and France is
out. Britain gains Florida and some islands
and Northern Canada. Spain gets the
Louisiana Territory.

19. French and Indian War

20. Aftermath cont.
● Britain has a massive debt problem
○ Taxes on the colonies are going up
● Britain is a wee bit paranoid about their
colonies
● Britain decides to keep lots of soldiers in
North America.
○ Colonists have to feed, clothe and house them

21. Native Americans post war
● Ohio Native Americans sign a separate
treaty with Britain
○ They had been hoping France would win, because
they thought it would be easier to beat France down
the road.
● The treaty calls for Britain to give up Ohio
and prevent settlement there.
○ Britain went back on its word.