33 Guyasuta and Pontiac's War

Iroquois History and Legends

With the Seven Years War winding down. Jeffery Amherst the British Commander-in-Chief of North America has to reduce spending drastically. One of the things he cuts to almost zero is the budget for allied Native Nations. Also colonists begin pouring into the west in violation to the Treaty of Easton. A Seneca man named Guyasuta will try to resist these encroachments and a prophet named Neolin will inspire a pan-indigenous revival which in turn inspires an Ottawa man named Obwandiyag to drive out the British from the Great Lakes. The British however called him Pontiac.

Sources:

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

GUYASUTA AND THE FALL OF INDIAN AMERICA BY BRADY J. CRYTZER

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