History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0456 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Five Nations' Neutrality
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The idea
The Five Nations Iroquois, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, pursued neutrality between English and French through the first half of the seventeen hundreds.
In practice
Living in their own villages under their own government while trading with both sides.
Where people slip
Neutrality was a strategy, not an absence of one, and it worked for fifty years.
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