Hi, welcome to Erichoy History and Legends. This is Caleb. And this is Andrew.

And it is great to be with you all again. It's been a long time. And Andrew and I have some legitimate excuses for it being so long since our last episode. For one, we wanted to take a break. We've been doing this show for a couple of years now, basically nonstop. And springing just rolled around, so we decided to take a little

sabbatical. But there's also another reason, and that's that we kind of ran into this

sticky situation where we kind of knew where we wanted to go for the next couple episodes,

but we just couldn't really make it work. We were working on a red jacket biography,

kicking around some ideas for doing some more modern time episodes.

For example, some Seneca land grabs that happened in the 1960s.

Then also trying to tie into our narrative.

And we were just having a lot of trouble.

We were having little bits

of work here and there but really couldn't get anything solid down so andrew said okay let's take a step

back and what is next in the narrative andrew for our timeline of history today we are going to be

discussing something that we've talked about in numerous episodes leading up to this time, and that would be the 1794 Treaty

of Canada. So Andrew and I are going to do our very best. I'll be honest, I've spent a couple years

reading about this stuff, and I even live in the areas that this took place, so there's a lot of

resources to learn this, but it's pretty confusing stuff.

Let's set up the board again really quick.

The American Revolution's over, and the European and American governments have gotten together

and formed the Treaty of Paris, and they consulted no indigenous people anywhere about

these treaty rights.

So now, the people of the Longhouse, they have to deal with

not only a new federal government that's just been created in the Americans, but they need to

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