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Lectures in History

Colonial Diplomacy & the Iroquois Confederacy

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Gettysburg College professor Timothy Shannon teaches a class on Colonial-era diplomatic ties between the Iroquois Confederacy of the eastern Great Lakes region and European settlers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right. Well, welcome, everyone. today we're going to be talking about diplomacy on the early American frontier particularly between Native American peoples

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and European peoples we're going to talk about some of the customs and protocols

1:10.4

that governed that style of diplomacy and the

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objectives that both Native American peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings.

1:19.4

I've got an image here that's actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of New York

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in the Mohawk Valley.

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You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson that not a lot of contemporary

1:38.0

American students of history know much about, but he was a very interesting figure in the

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18th century.

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He was an Irish immigrant who came to America, settled on the Mohawk frontier of upstate

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New York in the 1740s, and became very friendly with the Mohawk Indians who were his neighbors,

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and ultimately gained a great deal of influence among them, and ultimately was appointed by the

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British Crown to serve as its

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