The Americans of the new United States…

The Americans of the new United States by the end of the war, identify most of the natives with the Loyalists and the defeated British.

British North America accepts over half the eighty thousand Loyalists, with twenty thouasnd more settling in Nova Scotia, fourteen thousand in New Brunswick (separated from Nova Scotia in 1794), six thousand in Upper Canada (modern Ontario, formerly western Quebec) and one thousand in Lower Canada (modern Quebec).

The remainder of the Loyalists emigrate to the West Indies or the British Isles.

Although this move hardly affects the United States, with its population of five million, it changes the demographics of British North America from largely French-Canadian to approximately half British.

The natives, including the Iroquois Confederacy, the Wyandots, the Shawnees and the so-called ‘civilized tribes’ of the Southeast—Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws and Choctaws—are forgotten by their former allies.

Spain, allied to the United States in the conflict, had attempted to erect a large tribal reserve between the Appalachians and the Mississippi (as a buffer between the United States and Spanish North America, but the victors had rejected the idea of independent native nations.