They then thought to make the links of iron; but the iron will rust. They then decided to make the three chain links of silver.
The silver needs attention, so every time we meet, it is our duty to polish this Covenant Chain of Friendship. In this way we will keep our agreement fresh between us. We heartily recommend Union and a good Agreement between you our Brethren. Never disagree, but preserve a strict Friendship for one another, and thereby you, as well as we, will become stronger. WE are a powerful Confederacy; and, by your observing the same Methods our wise Forefathers have taken, you will acquire fresh Strength and Power; therefore whatever befalls you, never fall out one with another.
When this letter was written, a war with the French was increasingly probable, especially because of conflicting French and English interests over the lands around what became Pittsburgh at the convergence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River.
The alliance between the English and the Haudenosaunee was imperative, especially because the lands at the convergence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River were directly under Haudenosaunee control. There was also an issue around a controversial land sale in Mohawk country: the vast Kayaderosseras patent around Saratoga and the lands claimed by George Klock and others south the Mohawk River near Canajoharie [neither of these issues was ever resolved, and the Klock family became notorious Patriots during the American Revolution].
This letter is one of the reasons the northern colonies convened of the Albany Congress and created the Albany Plan of Union. The London officials in charge of the colonies, the Lords of Trade, with the full support of the Crown, forced representatives of the northern colonies to meet at Albany to plan a coordinated effort to placate the Haudenosaunee, who were angry over land fraudulent land dealings, and specifically renew the Covenant Chain.
The letter stresses the instructions of the Lords of Trade to the governor of New York, Sir Danvers Osborn, and the other colonial governors. These directives included. This speech includes a detailed description of a Covenant Chain wampum belt. A Belt…. Brethren, We come to strengthen and brighten the chain of friendship…. This chain hath remained firm and unbroken from the beginning.
This represents the King our common Father — this line represents his arms extended, embracing all us the English and all the Six Nations — These represents the Colonies which are here present and those who desire to be thought present — These represents the Six Nations, and there is a space left to draw in the other Indians — And there in the middle is the line represented which draws us all in under the King our common Father.
Example of how the Covenant Chain could be evoked as a warning to the English by the Haudenosaunee not to act unethically and therefore break the Covenant Chain. Teyyawarunte Onondaga to Sir William Johnson. Background: In the aftermath of victory over the French, Sir Jeffrey Amherst had been inept in formulating a trade policy with the French-allied Indians.
He had imposed restrictions on Indian trade, and had encouraged the charging of higher prices and had nearly eliminated the giving of trade goods as presents the eighteenth century equivalent of foreign aid.
When Teyyawarunte mentions the first agreement with the English, he is probably referring to the iron Covenant Chain of The first mention of the Silver Covenant Chain is The first agreement with the Dutch was Note, too, that Johnson, his staff, and his trusted friend and interpreter John Butler did not feel that it was necessary to record the entire recitation of the original historical context of Covenant Chain — merely noting that Teyyawarunte had recited "the whole of it.
James H. Merrell is Professor of History at Vassar College. Because so much in the study of early American history in general and Native American history in particular has changed—and, perhaps more importantly, because so much has remained the same—it is a propitious moment to reissue a work long out of print. The mids were an exciting time for those of us who had been trained in the "mainstream" of Anglo-American colonial history.
Steeped in the various "new histories" and inspired by still confidently empirical anthropological theory, we were emboldened to see in Native history a new, inclusive way of getting to the heart of the early American experience.
And we did then tend to think of historical experience as more singular than multiple, as the subtitles of early articles each of us published in The William and Mary Quarterly in that pre-postmodern period suggest.
Eccles and Francis Jennings. With the simultaneous presence of James Axtell on the History faculty at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg briefly seemed either the center of a scholarly revolution—or the one place so many eccentrics could safely be quarantined.
The years since have demonstrated that, if our notions about the place of Indians in early America—and those of other scholars laboring away in other locales, most notably Gary B. Nash—did not quite foment a revolution, at least they no longer seemed peculiar. Papers and panels proliferate at professional meetings, graduate students flock to Native American, frontier, and cross-cultural topics, and few historians now would dream of including in the opening paragraphs of a U.
History survey textbook a description of "a vast and virgin continent, which was so sparsely peopled by Indians that they were to be eliminated or shouldered aside. Initially reflecting an older preoccupation with European images of Indians rather than Indian experiences, early conference planning styled it The Imperial Iroquois —without inverted commas.
Then, on second thought, we added the quotation marks to announce that no one seriously believed anymore that there had been an Iroquois empire in the European sense. Historica Canada. Article published February 07, ; Last Edited August 17, The Canadian Encyclopedia , s. Thank you for your submission Our team will be reviewing your submission and get back to you with any further questions. Thanks for contributing to The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Article by Cornelius J. Definition of the Covenant Chain The Covenant Chain, which borrowed heavily from the political ideology of the Haudenosaunee, was a complex system of alliances between the Haudenosaunee and Anglo-American colonies originating in the early 17th century. Did You Know? Indigenous Peoples in Canada treaty.
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