All right. Welcome everyone, today were going to be talking about diplomacy on the early american frontier, politically between native American Peoples and european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives that both native American Peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have an image here that is actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named while William Johnson. Not a lot of contemporary mark and students of history know much about him, but he was an interesting figure in the 18 century. He was an irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in the 17 forties and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately, he gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the Bri
Of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of in a five americans and colonial peoples for those meetings. I have an image that is a painting from 1903 that is depicted a treaty. And it is not something that they know much about, but he was an irish immigrant that came to america and settled on the fron teen in the 1740s and became very friendly with the indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately he gain add great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as an agent to the iroquois neighbors. Think about the reading you did for today. This is providing you with a mental image of that. It was a mansion that still stands today. You can get off of the new york state freeway and you can visit this sight and another kwun of his homes, that are preserved as state Historic Sites and tell a really interesting story about how they came together on the frontier not to fight, but to talk about the difference
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