| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Canada and the United States

Alan Taylor. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2006. Pp. 542. $35.00.
Land was the greatest resource the early American republic possessed—or aspired to possess. At independence, the majority of the land within the newfound borders of the United States actually belonged to Native peoples determined to preserve their ownership and sovereignty in the face of the new government's claims. Recent studies have focused on the wars of resistance fought in the West, or the dramatic case of Jacksonian-era Indian removal. This book by Alan Taylor provides a thorough and clear-eyed analysis of the less spectacular but more revealing dispossession of the Six Nations Iroquois.	1
Until 1760, the Six Nations thrived on their position between the French and British empires. Politically savvy and militarily strong, they parlayed their position into a steady stream of gifts, favorable trade, and fundamental respect from colonists on all sides. In doing so, they relied on cultural mediators, men like Sir William Johnson, Christian missionaries, or white captives who learned their language enough to serve as translators. These mediators profited from their positions. But to keep the benefits coming, they needed to keep the Six Nations autonomous. Johnson accumulated vast tracts of land from the Mohawks he supposedly was protecting, but he never imagined reducing them to poverty or subjugating them directly to British authority. Had that happened, he would have been out of a job.	. . .

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