Shawnee origins of their seven years' war

摘要: The Ohio Shawnee reversed the trend of their diplomacy in going to war with British colonies I754. This move has been misunderstood as general resentment against settler encroachment and/or an opportunistic acceptance French incentives. clear trigger was imprisonment South Carolina six warriors who were intent on attacking Catawba. death most prominent them, Itawachcomequa, or Pride, prompted a declaration that became intermittent duel "Long Knives" over next sixty years. Unfortunately, fury at unjust confinement by allies not adequately understood officials, European contemporaries, subsequent historians either Shawnee.