Relations between British colonists and natives, which…

August 1766 CE

Relations between British colonists and natives, which had been severely strained during the French and Indian War, had reached a new low during Pontiac's Rebellion.

People on both sides of the conflict had come to the conclusion that colonists and natives are inherently different and cannot live with each other. 

The British government had also come to the conclusion that colonists and natives must be kept apart.

On October 7, 1763, the Crown had issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, an effort to reorganize British North America after the Treaty of Paris.

The Proclamation, already in the works when Pontiac's War erupted, had been hurriedly issued after news of the uprising reached London.

Officials had drawn a boundary line between the British colonies along the seaboard, and native lands west of the Allegheny Ridge (i.e., the Eastern Divide), creating a vast 'Indian Reserve' that stretched from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi River and from Florida to Quebec.

It thus confirmed the antebellum demarcation that had been set by the Treaty of Easton in 1758.

By forbidding colonists from trespassing on native lands, the British government hopes to avoid more conflicts like Pontiac's Rebellion.

Locations
Fort Oswego Oswego New York United States View →

People
Alexander McGillivray View → Benjamin Lincoln View → Blue Jacket View → George Croghan View → George III of Great Britain View → Guyasuta View → Henry Louis Bouquet View → John Bradstreet View → Joseph Brant View → Neolin View → Pontiac (Ottawa leader) View → Thomas Gage View → William Johnson, 1st Baronet View →

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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) View → Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe) View → Miami (Amerind tribe) View → Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe) View → Odawa, or Ottawa, people (Amerind tribe) View → Seneca (Amerind tribe) View → Susquehannock (Amerind tribe) View → Mascouten (Amerind tribe) View → Kickapoo people (Amerind tribe) View → Potawatomi (Amerind tribe) View → Wea (Amerind tribe) View → Piankeshaw (Amerind tribe) View → Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe) View → Ohio Country View → Thirteen Colonies, The View → Illinois Country View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma) View →

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Colonization of the Americas, British View → Seven Years' War View → Pontiac's War (Pontiac's Rebellion of Conspiracy) View → American Revolution View →

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