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When it came to the Preliminary Articles of Peace in 1782, the Natives were never mentioned. No credit was given to the Native Americans for aiding either of the sides.

The British let their allies fall in the dust, many Natives resented this.

Americans were no better than the British in this case. They siad that, because the Natives chose the losing side to aide, the Natives deserve to lose their land rights. The Natives never gave up their land to accomodate these terms.

The Brits continued to trade with the Natives out of sympathy. Some would say the British did it to stop the negative articles being published about how the British government could not keep their word. The British citizens felt sympathy for the Native Americans.

IN 1780, Pensacola was threatened by the Spanish to be taken back from the Brits. Two thousand Creeks came to the Britains aide and the Spanish decided they were not ready to face off just yet. But a year later, the Spanish returned but more prepared. They took back Pensacola and soon after took Augusta and Savannah.

The South seemed to be closer to an American victory than a British one. The Natives were smart and realized this. The Cherokees, Chicksaws, and Chocktaws decided they wanted to make peace with the Americans.

Britain paid their Native American allies for just being at their disposal. Parliament soon felt that this investment was not providing any profit.
In March of 1779, Parliament discussed the advantages and disadvantages to figure if dropping the alliances would be better than keeping the Native agents. In the end they decided to keep allies because they were getting some profit from trade with them. And there was a higher demand for Native goods.

IN May 1776, (despite what the Southern colonies had wanted and preached: for the Natives to stay neutral) delegates of the Shawnees, Delawares, and Mohawks came down to the Cherokees to convince them to fight against the Americans. The Cherokees were persuaded and started tomahawking.

The South American colonists retalliated by scorching their land and villages. But the Cherokees just moved farther West and watched what the colonists were doing.

What happened to the Cherokees made the Creeks dislike the Americans more but, at the same time, they did not want to face the same scorching.

The Oneidas and Tuscarorons (the only two tribes out of the 6 Iriquois nations will to help the American cause) met in Albany in September of 1777 with American General Philip Schuyler (at right). The Natives agreed to aid the Americans in dealing with Burgoyne at Freeman's Farm. The Natives followed under General Horatio Gate.

After fighting off the British and their Native allies, they retreated to New York. There they through a bloody temper tantrum, aka guerilla warfare on the interior Patriot settlements. This was between 1778 and 1779. George Washington and General John Sullivan responded by scorching the Native American crop land and villages of the opposing Iriquois nations.

In the South, the British had 14,000 Native American warriors at their disposal. Three thousand Cherokees, 3,000 Choctaws, 3,000 Creeks (joined later), 5,000 Chickasaws.

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."