Western Lakes Confederacy
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Western Lakes Confederacy, also known as Great Lakes Confedreacy, was a confederacy among the Native Americans/First Nations about the western Great Lakes. The Confederacy first came together in the autumn of 1785 at Fort Detroit, proclaiming that the parties to the Confederacy would deal jointly with the United States, rather than individually. The confederacy consisted of:
- Council of Three Fires
- Iroquois Confederacy
- Seven Nations of Canada
- Wabash Confederacy
- Illini Confederacy
- Wyandot
- Mississaugas
- Menominee
- Shawnee
- Lenape
- Miami
- Kickapoo
- Kaskaskia
The Wendat were the nominal "fathers" or senior guaranteeing nation of the Confederacy, but Shawnees and Miamis provided the greatest share of the fighting force.
[edit] References
- Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University, 1992.
- Jennings, Francis. The Founders of America. New York: Norton, 1993.
- Skaggs, David Curtis and Larry L. Nelson, eds. The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-87013-569-4.
- Sugden, John. Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
- Sword, Wiley. President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
- White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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