The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and violence continued between Americans and Native Americans.
So how did the early United States attempt to create peace for its new nation?
Michael Oberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York-Geneseo and the author of Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, joins us to investigate how the United States worked with the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations peoples to create peace through the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794.
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Each episode features a conversation with a historian who helps us shed light on important people and events in early American history.
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Episode Summary
Michael Oberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York-Geneseo and the author of Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, joins us to investigate how the United States worked with the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations peoples to create peace through the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794.
As we investigate the Treaty of Canandaigua, Michael reveals why the Six Nations and United States needed a treaty agreement in 1794; The different cultural and political viewpoints both sides negotiated in the treaty making process; And, the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, its seven articles, and the work the treaty has done to bring and keep peace.
What You’ll Discover
- The Treaty of Canandaigua
- Treaty of Canandaigua commemoration
- Why the United States and Six Nations needed at treaty in 1794
- Why there wasn’t peace in North America after the Treaty of Paris 1783
- The cultural and political viewpoints at the Canandaigua Treaty table
- Treaty making and the United States
- Timothy Pickering
- The negotiations at Canandaigua
- Negotiating in two languages
- The seven articles in the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794)
- Guswenta
- Reactions of the Six Nations & United States to the Treaty of Canandaigua
- How the Treaty of Canandaigua compares with other treaties
- The Treaty of Canandaigua over time
Links to People, Places, and Publications
- Michael Oberg
- Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
- Michael’s blog Native America: A History
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- Episode 029: Colin Calloway, The Victory With No Name
- Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America
- Episode 184: David J. Silverman, Thundersticks
- Episode 179: George Van Cleve, After the Revolution
- Episode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region
Time Warp Question
In your opinion, what might have happened if Six Nations leaders and the United States government could have communicated with each other in one language? How might the Treaty have turned out differently if there had been a common language and interpreters had not been involved in the process?
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