| Description |
During the American Revolutionary War, American Indians engaged in surveillance, intelligence, and fighting to support both the American colonists and the British in various capacities. This paper is a case study of three different American Indian nations and their differing choices of alliance during the American Revolutionary War. It examines the Oneida-Colonist relationship, the Mohawk-British relationship, and the effort of the Abenaki nation to remain neutral and seperate from the fight. It concludes that alliance choices by American Indian nations were not random and that each path of alliance was chosen in an effort to maintain autonomy, land, and survival, and was influenced by existing relationships the American Indian nation had with white powers. |
