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

confederacy. less interest

by what were called the Upper nations of the The Mohawks, Oneidas and Tuscaroras had

in the

western controversy.

Under the treaty of

1768, they had been paid for the lands which they claimed, not only in Pennsylvania, but for those embraced in the famous Kayaderossera patent on the Hudson, so long a subject of

complaint on the part of the

Colonial History, vm, 396, 404, 507. After Colonial History, vm, 396.

the alliance of the colonists with France, On the Z9th this policy was reversed.

1779, Count Rochambeau issued to them a proclamation through a delegation of Oneidas, Tuscaroras and

of August,

Caughnawagas who visited him at Newport

following words: "The France, your father, has not

in the

king of

forgotten his children.

As a token of

I have presented gifts to He learned your deputies in his name. with concern, that many nations, deceived by the English, who were his enemies, had attacked and lifted up the hatchet against his good and faithful allies, the United States. He has desired to tell you, that he is a firm and faithful friend