. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . y. On the other hand, loyal Colonial settlers inwestern New York, up along the smaller lakes andabout Ontarios eastern shore, had built up a kindof offensive and defensive alliance with the LongHouse ; the Six Nations, whose eastern tribe, theMohawks, guarded the Hudson, and whose westerntribe, the Senecas, watched the headwaters of theOhio. These tribes had a system of land tenure, the like ofwhich holds good in the Maori Reservations in NewZealand. T
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . y. On the other hand, loyal Colonial settlers inwestern New York, up along the smaller lakes andabout Ontarios eastern shore, had built up a kindof offensive and defensive alliance with the LongHouse ; the Six Nations, whose eastern tribe, theMohawks, guarded the Hudson, and whose westerntribe, the Senecas, watched the headwaters of theOhio. These tribes had a system of land tenure, the like ofwhich holds good in the Maori Reservations in NewZealand. The title to their land was vested in all fullmembers of the tribes, including the women. Noconveyance of land could be made without the author-isation of each tribe concerned, symbolised by theaffixing of the tribal mark, under the hand of the head ^ Cf. Bradley, The Fight with France for North America, pp. 192-199, for a vivid description of that unpardonable crime, as hecalls it. Massacres, however, were not all on one side. ThePaxton Boys of Pennsylvania murdered in cold blood a whole settle-ment of Indians in Lancaster (Pa.) in THE NORTHERN CAMPAIGN 29] man of each tribe, to the document of complicated system of land transfer was theparent of frequent and pernicious fraudulent the innumerable crimes committed on the personsand property of coloured men all over the world byEuropean settlers in the name of civilisation, therobberies and murders perpetrated on the Redskin formno inconsiderable chapter. Among the earliest acts ofGeorge III. was a proclamation forbidding the convey-ance of Indian land to Europeans, private individuals,by bargain and sale, or under any other form ofcontract. As represented by Sir William Johnson, the SirKings agent in those parts, the White father across theBlack water was a kind of earthly providence, alwaysbenevolent and often beneficent. Sir William John-sons overlordship and protectorate of the Six Natio
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