On August 6, 1777, the Iriquois surrendered all the unity they had, that made them a stong nation, at the Battle of Oriskany.
Their fighting resulted in the Great Peace being dissolved. The Great Peace was a cooperation treaty between the 6 major tribes in the North to unite under the Iriquois Nation. It was established at the Iriquois Confederacy.
It was brother Native vs. brother Native.
The Natives on the British side were doing Britains dirty, rather bloody, work. Jefferson wrote of the change in the Native Americans in the Declaration of Indepence.
" The King has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontier the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguishable destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions."
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