settled after their subjugation

by the Iroquois" (Gallatin, 55), but such does not appear to be the fact, except as they were

made so by the

intermarriages of which

Johnson speaks.

Cornstalk conducted the negotiations

on the part of the Indians.

Logan was

not present, but sent to the conference the famous speech which Jefferson preserved in his Notes on Virginia, and which has made the name of Logan a household word. Daniel Boone, Colonial History, vm, 395.

THE INDIAN 7RIBES

vited the northern and western Indians thither and delivered to

them speeches " setting

forth the danger all their nations were the from of the in, designs English, who, they said, had it in view to possess all their country." x From them also came the

invitation to the tribes to remove further down the

Ohio, with

a view to make their organization more compact and formidable,

an invitation which Custalaga, a Lenape chief, with one hundred of his followers, accepted, and was very soon after followed by larger delegations, animated by a common feeling of resistance.

With the alliance of the Shawanoes and the Mahican clans, the Lenapes were now more powerful than the Six Nations them and, no longer taunted as women, but recognized as brothers by them, they prepared to contest the supremacy of the colonists. selves,

The prejudice against the colonists, which was entertained by the western tribes, was, as has been already shown, equally bitter on the part of the Senecas, over whom Johnson with great a nominal control, and the feeling was difficulty maintained even largely shared