Dekanisora
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Indian History
Article abstract: Dekanisora was the leading Iroquois orator of his era and a noted neutralist politician and diplomat in Iroquois dealings with the English and French in the Northeast.
Respected and admired by both his own people and the French and English, Dekanisora masterfully played these two European powers in the Iroquois backyard off against each other. Devoted to the cause of neither imperial power but rather to the cause of the Onondagas and the Iroquois Confederacy, he forced both the English and the French to court him. In 1700, when his wife died...
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