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Ben Franklin's World is a production of Colonia Williamsburg Innovation Studios.

Dunmore's War is a really Eurocentric reading or reflection of this conflict.

It only names the one European combatant.

When we knew that this anniversary year was coming, we wanted a name that reflected the

conflict itself. We wanted a more indigenous perspective on that conflict. And so putting the Shawnee

in front of the name was the better way to go because this conflict is famous because of the Shawnee.

Yeah. because of the Shawnee. Hello and welcome to episode 398 of Ben Franklin's World, the podcast dedicated to helping

you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the

present-day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Covert. After the seven years war,

Great Britain instituted the proclamation line of 1763. This line sought to create a lasting peace in North

America by limiting British colonial settlement east of the Appalachian Mountains.

Now, while limiting colonial settlement and warfare between British colonists and indigenous

peoples west of the Appalachians was the intent of this proclamation line, it was not a boundary

line that colonists or colonial governments seemed willing to uphold. Five years later, in 1768, colonists and British colonial agents

went out into indigenous territories and negotiated new boundary lines to push that official boundary

of colonial settlement a bit further west. This came in the treaties of Fort Stanwyx and hard labor.

But as with the proclamation line of 1763, these treaty negotiated boundaries did not

hold. By spring 1774, the colony of Virginia found itself embroiled in a war over land with

the Shawnee and Mingo peoples of the Ohio River Valley. Fallon Burner and Russell Reed, two of the

three co-managers of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's American Indian Initiative,

join us to investigate the Shawnee Dunmore War of 1774, and what this work can show us about indigenous life and warfare in the eastern woodlands during the mid to late 18th century.

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