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This week episode 218, Anandaga Creek. In April of 1779 the Americans launched an offensive into the

Anandaga villages of Western New York. Before we get into the details of the attack,

I thought it might be a good time to take a step back

and go over the role of the Iroquois Confederacy in the war.

The Confederacy dated back hundreds of years, possibly even before Columbus reached America.

Initially, the Confederation consisted of five tribes, the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Anandaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca.

In the early 1700s, a sixth tribe, the Tuscarcarora also joined the Confederacy. As I've explained in earlier

episodes the Iroquois were a relatively small group of native tribes living in what is today upstate New York and southern Canada.

Based on language, they are thought to have migrated to this area from the south,

settling amongst the much larger groups of Algonquin speaking

native groups within this region. The Confederacy particularly found itself threatened after the French in Quebec allied with many of the Algonquin tribes that were the traditional enemies of the Iroquois.

The power and influence of the Iroquois really took off in the late 1600s after the Iroquois began a trading relationship with the Dutch in the New Netherlands.

After the British took control and changed the name to New York,

the Iroquois continued that beneficial relationship with the British.

Trade gave the Iroquois access to guns and other Western technology that allowed them to extend their reach as far south as the Carolinas and as far west as the Mississippi River.

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