Indian Boundary Line With Other Countries In Allegheny
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The Six Nations also ceded interests in land west and north of the boundary line negotiated at Fort Stanwix in 1768. Importantly, the treaty recognized each of the six nations as sovereign nations, and promised to protect the Six Nations and the reserve's land, a promise that was not kept.
The treaty created a new Covenant Chain between Britain and the First Nations of the western Great Lakes. During the War of 1812, nations involved with this treaty allied themselves with the British, as the nations believed the treaty bound them to the British cause.
This treaty was concluded on October 17, 1768, and drew a boundary line from the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, to the headwaters of the Kanawha River, then south to Spanish East Florida. Johnson called the council in the north to be held at Fort Stanwix.
Known as "the fort that never surrendered," Fort Stanwix, under the command of Col. Peter Gansevoort, successfully repelled a prolonged siege, in August 1777, by British, German, Loyalist, Canadian, and American Indian troops and warriors commanded by British Gen. Barry St. Leger.
K5 The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
The British and Cherokees met in Hard Labor, South Carolina, and signed the treaty on October 17, 1768. This established a new western border for British North America, along a line extending in part from present Wytheville, Virginia, to the mouth of the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant.
There are no federally recognized Indian reservations in Pennsylvania today. This does not mean, however, that there are no people in Pennsylvania who are members of a federally recognized Native American tribe. In fact, there are over 12,000 people who identify with a Native American tribe or nation in Pennsylvania.
The Proclamation of 1763 “preserved to the said Indians” the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and ordered White settlers “there forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements,” forbade White settlement, and restricted commerce with the American Indians to traders licensed by the British government, ...
The Proclamation of 1763 created an imaginary north-south line through the Appalachian Mountains that colonists were not allowed to settle past. Additionally, settlers who were already living west of the Appalachians had to return. It also forbade colonists from trading and buying land from Native Americans.
Today there are no Tribes recognized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. However, several groups, such as the Lenape (Delaware) Tribe, continue to have a modern presence in the state and are working to revitalize the Indigenous heritage of Eastern Pennsylvania.
