However it was the colonists who had formed the most direct relationships with the Iroquois, due to their proximity and trade ties. For the most part, the colonists and Iroquois had lived in relative peace since the English arrival on the continent a century and a half before.

The war ensued, and the Iroquois broke their confederation. Hundreds of years of precedent and collective government were overturned by the immensity of the American Revolutionary War. The Oneida and Tuscarora decided to support the colonists, while the rest of the Iroquois League (the Cayuga, Mohawk, Onondaga, and Seneca) sided with the British and Loyalists.

[T]he majority of the Six Nations decided to side with the British and were no longer considered trustworthy by the newly independent Americans.

Actual history is a little more complicated than "Columbus raped and murdered every native he saw", but the complicated version doesn't get clicks or internet points.

Have a wonderful Conquered peoples day!

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