The 1784 treaty with the Six Nations indicates that after the American Revolution, some Native Americans were
A.
dispossessed of their land.
B.
forced to stop practicing slavery.
C.
eager to keep fighting for the British.
D.
captured by incoming settlers.
As presented, these articles were concluded at Fort Stanwix, on the October, 22, 1784, between representatives of the United States and the Six Nations.
The United States of America give peace to the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, and receive them into their protection upon the following conditions:
ARTICLE 1.
Six hostages shall be immediately delivered to the commissioners by the said nations, to remain in possession of the United States, till all the prisoners, white and black, which were taken by the said Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas, and Cayugas, or by any of them, in the late war, from among the people of the United States, shall be delivered up.
ARTICLE 2.
The Oneida and Tuscarora nations shall be secured in the possession of the lands on which they are settled.
ARTICLE 3.
[. . . .]
The Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States, all claims to the country west of the said boundary, and then they shall be secured in the peaceful possession of the lands they inhabit east and north of the same, reserving only six miles square round the fort of Oswego, to the United States, for the support of the same.
