Dr. Scott Stephenson

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American History Tellers · American Revolution | The Revolution Continues | 7 · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Many nations had sided with the French during the earlier conflict, the French and Indian War, because there were, you know, maybe 20 times the number of British colonists as French colonists.

So there was less progress.

pressure on dispossessing Native people and taking their lands.

It was more of a trading empire.

And so fighting against the British made sense for a lot of Native people 20 years earlier.

Now, during the American Revolution, generally, the British seemed like a better bet because the Americans were very explicitly expansionist.

You know, they were

fighting this war in many ways to try to break free of the boundaries that had been set by the British ministry with the proclamation line of 1763, trying to keep the American colonial population east of the Appalachian Mountains.

And so, for example, the Haudenosaunee, the people of the Longhouse or the Iroquois Confederacy, as they were known to many, the six nations who live in what's now sort of central New York,

were divided during the war by this necessity foisted on them by the warring sides to declare themselves for one side or another.

So most of the six nations felt that siding with the British was the most likely path

of success for securing their independence, their sovereignty against this expansionist American Republic that was being created.

The exception to that was part of the Tuscarora Nation, which was the sixth of the Six Nations, and the Oneida Indian Nation.

The Oneida Nation lived sort of the eastern side of the Six Nations territory in New York.

And they ultimately decided to support the Continental Congress.

And so they are both one of America's first and one of America's most forgotten allies.

More than 40 men came to Valley Forge actually in the spring of 1778 to provide military assistance to the Continental Army.

They actually probably played a role in saving Lafayette from being captured by the British at the Battle of Barren Hill in early 1778.

But it wasn't just the Six Nations.

The Lenape or Delaware people who were original inhabitants of the area of eastern Pennsylvania, what's now the Delaware River Valley, New Jersey, up around New York.

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