Personal politics: William Johnson and the Mohawks. (Patterns of Political Leadership in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Native North America)

From: The American Indian Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Mullin, Michael J. | Copyright information

William Johnson succeeded as a British negotiator with the Six Nations of the Iroquois from the 1740s through the 1760s by cultivation of personal relationships through gift-giving, sponsorship by the Mohawk leader Hendrick and integration into kinship networks through his marriage to Molly Brant, who was either a Mohawk or Western Iroquois. The Iroquois were moving into the Ohio Valley at the time and used their relationship with Johnson to maintain their preeminence in Anglo-Indian relation...

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