Do you think the Treaty of La Grande Paix was fair? Why?
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Explanation:
In summer 1701, Montréal was the scene of a major historical event: the signature of the Great Peace treaty. This treaty put an end to several decades of conflict between the Iroquois, allies of the English, and the French and their allied Indigenous People
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@MɪssSᴘᴀʀᴋʟɪɴɢ♥️
As only the deputies of the Huron [Wendat] and the Odawa were here last year when I made peace with the Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] for myself and all my allies, I deemed it necessary to send the Sieur de Courtemanche and the Reverend Father Enjalran to all the other nations, my allies, who were absent, to inform them of what had happened and to invite them to send each one's chiefs with the Iroquois prisoners they held in order to hear my words all together.
It is an extreme joy to see at present all of my children assembled here, you Hurons, Sand Odawa [Akonapi], Kiskakons, Sinago Odawa, Fork Nation [Nassawaketon Odawa], Saulteurs [Ojibwa], Potawatomi, Sauk, Skunk [Ho-Chunk], Wild Oats [Menominees], Fox [Meskwaki], Mascoutens, Miamis, Illinois [Illiniwek], Amikwa, Nipissing, Algonquins, Timiskaming, Cristinaux [Cree], Inlanders, Kickapoo, people of the Rapids [Kahnawake Mohawk], people of the Mountain, Abenaki, and you, the Iroquois nations, and that, as you have each placed your interests in my hands, I may cause you all to live in tranquility. I therefore ratify today the peace we made in the month of August last, desiring that there be no more talk of all of the blows struck during the war, and I once again seize all your axes, and all your other instruments of war, which I place along with my own in a pit so deep that no one will be able to retrieve them to trouble the tranquility that I reestablish among my children, and I recommend to you when you meet one another to treat one another as brothers, and to agree with one another on hunting, so that no quarrels may arise among you. And so that this peace may not be troubled, I repeat what I had said in the treaty we made, that if it should happen that one of my children should strike another, the one who has been struck shall not take vengeance, neither himself nor anyone else for him, but he shall come find me so that I may reestablish justice for him, declaring to you that, if the offender should refuse to make reasonable amends, I and my other allies will join with the offended party to oblige him to do so; which I do not think could happen, given the obedience which my children owe me, remembering what we are now deciding together. And so that they will not be able to forget them, I attach my words to necklaces that I will give to each of your nations so that the elders may have them carried out by their young people. I invite each of you to smoke this peace pipe which I will smoke first, and to eat meat and broth that I am having prepared for you so that I may have, like a good father, the satisfaction of seeing all my children gathered together.
I will keep this pipe that was given to me by the Miami so that I can invite you to smoke when you come to see me.
After all the above nations had heard what Monsieur the Chevalier de Callière had said to them, they answered as follows:
The Chief of the Kiskakons:
My father, knowing that you would ask me for the Iroquois prisoners, I did not want to fail to bring them to you. Here are four, whom I present to you to do with as you please. It is with this porcelain [wampum] that I unbound them, and here is a pipe that I present to the Iroquois for us to smoke together when we meet one another. I rejoice that you have unified the earth which was in confusion, and I willingly subscribe to everything you have done.