"No useless mouth": Iroquoian food diplomacy in the American Revolution
After 1660, writes historian Michael LaCombe, Englishmen depicted Native Americans as "tragic, hungry, and helpless victims." A century later, Anglo-Irishman William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, did otherwise. In describing the increased expense of Indian alliances in 1765 he...
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