BFW Revisited Threads of Power

Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History by Liz Covart

Jul 28, 202653:43Society & Culture

For the Haudenosaunee, the Six Nations People, the American Revolution brought not liberty, but land loss, displacement, and the dismantling of their world. The new United States seized land from Haudenosaunee nations re...

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