Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)

Iroquois League fled to Canada after the Revolution in order to continue receiving British support.

The leading Indian representatives who signed the treaty were Cornplanter and Captain Aaron Hill.

The Six Nations council at Buffalo Creek refused to ratify the treaty, denying that their delegates had the power to give away such large tracts of land and asked the Americans for return of the deeds and promised to indemnify them for any presents they had given.

The Ohio Country natives, including the Shawnee Indians, the Seneca-Cayuga, the Lenape (Delaware) and several other tribes, rejected the treaty.

The Revolutionary War had significantly weakened the strength of the confederacy, and the negotiations at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix served to further divide them.