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The American Revolutionary War was essentially two parallel wars for the American Patriots. The war in the east was a struggle against British rule, while the war in the west was an "Indian War". The newly proclaimed United States competed with the British for control of the territory east of the Mississippi River. Some Indians sided with the ...
This category lists articles on Native Americans and First Nations people in the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War. Those who sought to remain neutral, as well as those who fought alongside the British or the American Revolutionaries, are included.
The Iroquois confederacy, an alliance of six Native American nations in New York that had existed in peace for hundreds of years, was divided by the Revolutionary War. [ 5 ] [ 3 ] : 194 Joseph Brant , part of the Mohawk tribe, attempted to convince other tribes to join the cause against the colonists.
[2] [10] Over the course of the raid, the Native American force burned approximately 25 surrounding cabins and slaughtered or stole 300 cattle. [11] Following the Revolutionary War, Captain Samuel Mason would later turn to a life of crime as a river pirate in 1797 at Cave-In-Rock on the Ohio River and a highwayman on the Natchez Trace. [12] [13]
The American Revolutionary War is known to the Haudenosaunee as "the Whirlwind" that led to many of them being exiled from Kanienkeh to Canada, and the decision of Joseph and Molly Brant to be loyal to the Crown as the best way of preserving the Haudenosaunee lands and way of life has been controversial, with many Hadenosaunee historians ...
During the Revolutionary War, Great Britain had aligned with many of the Native American tribes in its claimed territories to the west of the colonies. This was an escalation of the skirmishes that made up the American Indian Wars that had been prompted by land encroachment by colonists and raids by Native American tribes, such as the Shawnee ...
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy.