Euro-Indian Interactions Before the Revolution at Siena College

Siena College has announced “The Chains of Alliance: Euro-Indian Cooperation and Conflict from Contact to the Revolution,” a lecture with Dr. John W. Hall, PhD, has been set for Wednesday, April 3rd from 6 to 7 pm, at the Key Auditorium, 202 Roger Bacon Hall, Siena College, Loudonville.

In this lecture event, Hall will argue that Native American nations faced a profound dilemma of loyalty to one another and their European allies when America declared independence from Great Britain.

Hall will offer a history of Euro-Indian political and military alliance as context for how Native Americans understood the Revolution. He concludes that Native Americans ultimately decided to join the American Revolution to secure their own political independence from foreign powers.

John W. Hall is Ambrose-Hesseltine Associate Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a specialist in Native American and early American military history and the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009). He is currently working on a military history of the forced migration of American indians to the American West, tentatively titled Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians.

For more information contact the McCormick Center at (518) 783-2319 or mccormickcenter@siena.edu.