12 Facts About Pontiac's War

Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War .

Indigenous people involved in Pontiac's War lived in a vaguely defined region of New France known as the pays d'en haut, which was claimed by France until the Paris peace treaty of 1763.

Pontiac's War believed the Indians were incapable of offering any serious resistance to the British Army.

Dowd argues that most Indians involved in Pontiac's War were not immediately threatened with displacement by white settlers, and that historians have overemphasized British colonial expansion as a cause of the war.

Pontiac's War began at Fort Detroit under the leadership of Pontiac and quickly spread throughout the region.

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Pontiac's War achieved this coordination through the distribution of war belts, first to the northern Ojibwa and Ottawa near Michilimackinac, and then to the Mingo on the upper Allegheny River, the Ohio Delaware near Fort Pitt, and the more westerly Miami, Kickapoo, Piankashaw, and Wea peoples.

Pontiac's War's strategy foiled, Pontiac withdrew after a brief council and, two days later, laid siege to the fort.

Violence and terror of Pontiac's War convinced many western Pennsylvanians that their government was not doing enough to protect them.

Incidents such as these prompted the Pennsylvania Assembly, with the approval of Governor Penn, to reintroduce the scalp bounties offered during the French and Indian Pontiac's War, which paid money for every enemy Indian killed above the age of ten, including women.

Pontiac's War has traditionally been portrayed as a defeat for the Indians, but scholars now usually view it as a military stalemate: while the Indians had failed to drive away the British, the British were unable to conquer the Indians.

The Proclamation, already in the works when Pontiac's War erupted, was hurriedly issued after news of the uprising reached London.

American Indians, Pontiac's War demonstrated the possibilities of pan-tribal cooperation in resisting Anglo-American colonial expansion.