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Show 12 watershed flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. Persons already established in "Indian Country" were ordered to remove themselves. In the controversy that was to develop between England and the colonies after 1763, the Indian's cause of complaint tended to come from the colonist's abuses of the Indian trade and encroachment on Indian lands growing out of failure to respect the lines drawn under the Proclamation. British officials had tried to protect the Indians in the controversies that developed along the western frontiers, and they did not fail to remind them of this. An example of the difficulty these superintendnets had in their efforts to influence relations between the Indian tribes and particular colonies was the encounter between the southern colonies and the Cherokee in 1760 that had to be put down with the use of British regulars in 1761. Edmond Atkin placed the blame on the activities of lying traders, jealous governors, and power-hungry assemblies used to having their own way with the Indians. The nature and activities of the traders, and attempts by the several colonies to promote their own interests, would not end with the Declaration of Independence nor the centralizing tendencies of the Continental Congress and the Confederation. Ill As Walter H. Mohr explains in the preface to Federal Indian Relations, 1774-1788 (1933): The management of Indian affairs was one of the many problems that faced the new American government at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Whether the states or |