Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799
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1700+
Slave trade is primary economic activity
By the early 18th century, the Indian slave trade is the colonies’ primary economic activity,...Read More
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1700
Virginia Native peoples succumb to smallpox.
In less than 100 years, by 1700, more than 75 percent of the Native peoples...Read More
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1704
Apalachee Massacre (Florida)
Former Carolina governor James Moore, his colonial militia, and allied Muscogee forces launch a series...Read More
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1705
Blood quantum laws support chattel slavery and stealing of lands
The Virginia Colony is the first to adopt “race” (blood quantum) laws that limits the...Read More
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1708
English enslave 10-12,000 Yamasee Indians
In the Carolinas, English traders kidnap and enslave Yamasee Indians, who have already been missionized,...Read More
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1711-1715
English traders enslave Indians through fiscal debt
During the period known as the “Tuscarora wars,” the Tuscarora resist English slave traders, who...Read More
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1712
Tuscarora Massacre at Fort Narhantes (North Carolina)
The North Carolina militia and their Indian allies attack the Southern Tuscarora at Fort Narhantes...Read More
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1712
Mesquaki (Fox) Indian Massacre (Michigan)
French troops with Indian allies kill around 1,000 Fox Indian men, women, and children in...Read More
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1712
Tuscarora Massacre at Fort Neoheroka (South Carolina)
Colonel James Moore, his militia volunteers, and Indian allies attack the main stronghold of the...Read More
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1715
Yamasee and Muscogee (Creek) resist English slave traders
The Yamasee of Georgia ally with the Muscogee Nation to revolt against British slavers to...Read More
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1722-1725
Massachusetts puts scalping bounty on Native families
The Massachusetts Bay Colony calls for Native scalps during Father Rale’s War (also called the...Read More
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1724
Abenaki Norridgewock Massacre (Maine)
Two hundred colonial rangers attack the Abenaki village of Norridgewock to kill Father Sebastian Rale,...Read More
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1724-1729
Natchez revolt against the French on lower Mississippi River
The Natchez resist French attempts to tax and confiscate Natchez lands, leading to a series...Read More
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1724
New Hampshire authorizes scalp hunting
The New Hampshire colony pays 100 pounds for each male scalp, 50 pounds for a...Read More
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1725
Peter the Great colonizes Alaska
The emperor of Russia sends Vitus Bering to Alaska’s coast for colonization. The Russians are...Read More
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1730
Chawasha Massacre (Louisiana)
Governor Perrier orders 80 Black slaves to attack the village of the Chawasha (Chaouacha/Chitimacha) Indians....Read More
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1730
French massacre Mesquaki (Fox) Indians
As the Mesquaki migrate eastward seeking refuge among the Seneca, they are attacked by an...Read More
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1737
“Walking Purchase” ends in confiscation of Lenape (Delaware) lands
English colonists “discover” a treaty (never seen or verified) with three Lenape chiefs, ceding lands...Read More
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1740
South Carolina slave codes
The 1740 slave codes of South Carolina serve to blur the distinction between African, American...Read More
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1745
Munsee Massacre at Walden (New York)
British colonists and vigilantes massacre several peaceful Munsee families near Walden, New York (“List of...Read More
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1745
Russians enslave Unangan (Aleut)
Russian colonizers attack Unangan women and take them and their children hostage, demanding that the...Read More
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1747
Chama River Massacre of Utes (New Mexico)
Spanish troops massacre 111 Ute Indians and take 206 Ute as captives (“List of Indian...Read More
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1749
Alcohol as tool of genocide
Benjamin Franklin writes in his autobiography, “And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence...Read More
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1756
Canada issues resolution calling for scalping of MicMac Indians
Governor Charles Lawrence’s proclamation says: “And, we do hereby promise, by and with the consent...Read More
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1759
Russian fur trade expands in Aleutian Islands
On Umnak and Unalaska, two islands off southwestern Alaska, the Russian merchant Stepan Glotov begins...Read More
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1762
Unangan (Aleut) resist Russian occupation
Unangan (Aleut) resist Russian merchants and merchant Stepan Glotov. A group of armed Unangan men...Read More
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1763
French and Indian War ends; Britain claims Native lands
England and France end the French and Indian War (also called the Seven Years’ War,...Read More
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1763-1766
Ottawa Chief Pontiac’s rebellion
Ottawa Chief Pontiac refuses British seizure of Ottawa lands. He organizes a pan-Indian alliance against...Read More
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1763
Massacre of Susquehannock and last members of the Conestoga Tribe (Pennsylvania)
In response to Pontiac’s rebellion, Pennsylvania colonists led by the Paxton Boys massacre 20 peaceful...Read More
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1763
Germ warfare with smallpox-infested blankets
Militia Captain William Trent notes on June 24, 1763, that dignitaries from the Delaware tribe...Read More
