1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix To Go On View at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Beginning Oct. 17
October 08, 2019
October 08, 2019
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian issued the following news release:
Signed one year after the end of the War of Independence, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of the first treaties between the newly independent U.S. and a Native nation. It punished four of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Six Nations--the Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Mohawks--for supporting the British during the American Revolution and required them to . . .
Signed one year after the end of the War of Independence, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of the first treaties between the newly independent U.S. and a Native nation. It punished four of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Six Nations--the Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Mohawks--for supporting the British during the American Revolution and required them to . . .