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The Lancaster Treaty of 1744
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The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 offers students a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America. The treaty minutes offer some of the best historical evidence of Iroquois perspectives on colonial power and diplomacy. James Merrell uses the treaty minutes, published by Benjamin Franklin short...
The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 offers students a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America. The treaty minutes offer some of the best historical evidence of Iroquois perspectives on colonial power and diplomacy. James Merrell uses the treaty minutes, published by Benjamin Franklin shortly after the end of the negotiations, to illuminate critical issues in the mid-eighteenth-century struggles between and among Indians and colonial empires. These issues, including competing colonial claims, land use and tenure, diplomacy, and cultural exchange, bring complex colonial worlds to life for students. Accompanying the treaty minutes are four documents by European and colonial observers who visited the Iroquois before, during, or after the treaty negotiations, shedding further light — and some ambiguity — on Indian-white relations in this period. A list of major figures, a chronology of events, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index further enable students’ exploration of this event.
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The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 offers students a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America. The treaty minutes offer some of the best historical evidence of Iroquois perspectives on colonial power and diplomacy. James Merrell uses the treaty minutes, published by Benjamin Franklin shortly after the end of the negotiations, to illuminate critical issues in the mid-eighteenth-century struggles between and among Indians and colonial empires. These issues, including competing colonial claims, land use and tenure, diplomacy, and cultural exchange, bring complex colonial worlds to life for students. Accompanying the treaty minutes are four documents by European and colonial observers who visited the Iroquois before, during, or after the treaty negotiations, shedding further light — and some ambiguity — on Indian-white relations in this period. A list of major figures, a chronology of events, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index further enable students’ exploration of this event.
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The Lancaster Treaty of 1744
First Edition| 2008
James H. Merrell
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND TREATIES
Major Figures in the Lancaster Treaty
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1977: An American History Lesson
Indians and Other Early Americans
The Iroquois League: Its History and Diplomacy
Treaties Between Indians and Colonists
Crisis and Contempt: The Hard Road to Lancaster
The 1744 Lancaster Treaty
Treaty Minutes as Historical Texts
The Aftermath of the Lancaster Treaty
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENT
A Note About the Text
A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, In PennsylvaniaÉin June 1744, printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. Benjamin West, Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference, 1766
2. John Bartram, Observations on a Visit to Onondaga, July–August 1743
3. Conrad Weiser, Report on the Council Proceedings at Onondaga, July-August 1743
4. Witham Marshe, Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations, June–July 1744
Appendixes
A Chronology of Events Related to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (c. 1300–1784)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND TREATIES
Major Figures in the Lancaster Treaty
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1977: An American History Lesson
Indians and Other Early Americans
The Iroquois League: Its History and Diplomacy
Treaties Between Indians and Colonists
Crisis and Contempt: The Hard Road to Lancaster
The 1744 Lancaster Treaty
Treaty Minutes as Historical Texts
The Aftermath of the Lancaster Treaty
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENT
A Note About the Text
A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, In PennsylvaniaÉin June 1744, printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. Benjamin West, Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference, 1766
2. John Bartram, Observations on a Visit to Onondaga, July–August 1743
3. Conrad Weiser, Report on the Council Proceedings at Onondaga, July-August 1743
4. Witham Marshe, Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations, June–July 1744
Appendixes
A Chronology of Events Related to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (c. 1300–1784)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Authors

James H. Merrell
James Merrell (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University) is Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. An award-winning scholar of American Indian history, Merrell has published a number of books and articles, including Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999), winner of the 2000 Bancroft Prize for history and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors From European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989), winner in 1990 of the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the Merle Curti Award.

The Lancaster Treaty of 1744
First Edition| 2008
James H. Merrell
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