1650-1825
Territorial Imaginings
While European Nation States competed for land and resources in the "New World" - Indigenous Nations in the Great Lakes made international agreements with successive French, British, and American Colonial Governments. This is the era of the first European and very early United States "mapping" of North America, which created conflict and shifting alliances, locally, regionally and internationally. It should be noted that this geographical re-mapping coincides with other developing "imaginings" and policies of emerging European and U.S. governments, attempting to re-educate native peoples away from the concept of communally held lands in preparation for removals, allotments, and relocation.