45 The Blood of the Innocent

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How would you fare in your faith when you are faced with certain death? In 1782 a community of Lenape (Delaware) Christians were victims to one of the most heinous acts in American History.

Sources:

Diary of David Zeisberger by David Zeisberger

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

SIMON GIRTY - WILDERNESS WARRIOR BY EDWARD BUTTS

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Erichoy History and Legends. This is Caleb and I'm here as always with Andrew.
0:06.0	I wanted to give you all a disclaimer on this episode because this episode is going to be quite different than anything we've covered in the past.
0:16.0	Andrew and I throughout covering the past several hundred years of Aroquoian history in North America,
0:23.4	we've talked about a lot of bad things, a lot of murder, a lot of torture, things that can make people uncomfortable.
0:30.9	Now, that being said, what we are going to talk about today is something that when Andrew and I researched it, we did not even want to talk about it.
0:42.2	So Andrew and I were kicking around the idea back and forth, hey, do we even want to do an
0:47.4	episode on this? Because it just made us so uncomfortable and so ashamed of basically the human race, but we agreed that we would cover it.
0:58.5	That would do honor to the victims of the story more than pretending that it didn't exist.
1:03.7	This episode is not going to be like many of our other episodes, so please just keep that in mind.
1:10.7	History is not always entertaining. So I guess I'll
1:15.5	leave it at that for now. And the Lord said, what have you done?
1:38.3	What have you done?
1:42.3	Listen.
1:43.3	Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
1:48.2	The Book of Genesis, Chapter 4, verse 10.
1:55.8	Caleb, a long while back, we talked about Hendrik Thaneaguin.
2:01.4	He was a Mohawk leader who was killed in the French and Indian War at the Battle of Lake George.
2:06.3	Do you recall him, Caleb?
2:07.4	Yes.
2:08.1	Anyway, before Hendrik was killed in the French and Indian War, in 1743, he met with a young man who was from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a guy named David
2:19.5	Zeisberger. He was an immigrant from Moravia. Ever heard of it? Yeah, that's modern day
2:27.2	Czech Republic. Yeah, he was from the German-speaking area. From a young age, David desired to be a
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