![]() The Iroquois similarly field a variety of leaders, from the haughty Seneca Red Jacket, who mocked the presumptuous whites and encouraged Iroquois resistance (only to negotiate with them later), to Joseph Brant, the legendary Mohawk leader whose Christianity and friendships with whites proved both an asset and a burden. He focuses on white political leaders like George Clinton (New York’s brilliant, devious governor), Philip Schuyler (general, Hamilton in-law and land-grabbing patroon) and Timothy Pickering (Washington’s frosty, arrogant Secretary of State), alongside more obscure figures like Samuel Kirkland, a missionary who spent his life in fruitless attempts to “civilize” the Natives through agrarian development and religious conversion. ![]() ![]() Taylor (American Revolutions, etc.) examines the interplay between the British and American governments and the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, an alliance of six nations which alternately coexisted, fought and negotiated with their white rivals. Impressively rich portrait of settler-native relations in 18th Century New York. ![]()
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