Using Kathleen DuVal’s introduction to her book, the Continental Congress’s Speech to the Six Nations, and Sir William Johnson’s “Watches the Settlers Invade Indian Lands , how does focusing on Indigenous perspectives between the Seven Year War (1756) and the American Revolution (1776) inform and shape our understandings about attitudes, events, and meanings of the movement towards American Independence?

1. Think through each act passed by the British Parliament, and the outburst it created leading up to the War. How would each piece of legislation have affected people in the colonies differently? For example: who suffered more on a daily basis under the Townshend duties versus the Quartering Act- poor, wealthy, men, women, coastal or rural people, etc? Include: The Stamp Act Congress Condemns the Stamp Act (1765) and Thomas Preston Description of the Boston Massacre (1770) in your analysis.

2. Using Kathleen DuVal’s introduction to her book, the Continental Congress’s Speech to the Six Nations, and Sir William Johnson’s “Watches the Settlers Invade Indian Lands , how does focusing on Indigenous perspectives between the Seven Year War (1756) and the American Revolution (1776) inform and shape our understandings about attitudes, events, and meanings of the movement towards American Independence?

I’ve already uploaded three required sources, and these are the links of the other remaining two sources:
“The uncommon increase of Settlements in the back Country”
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5710
” Speech to the Six Nations”
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/contcong_07-13-75.asp

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