#hetalia mohawk

I made this post about four years ago exploring this moment in American History exclusively from Jennie/NY's perspective. She views this event as proving those like Alfred, and the other states, for doubting her expertise in financial manners as wrong, and also to prove she can be trusted with this type of work (lowkey throughout the colonial era and even up to the event in question, they view her with a sense of suspicion due to her Dutch origin). Alfred comes to trust her even moreso after this.

I also just want to quickly note that Alfred in my lore was highly immature with his duties as a nation given the weakness of the federal government at this time. He used to just let his states do much of his international relations, and trade and even most governance-- his role was really just to partake in wars. His original 13 states also weren't interested in this slightly younger kid telling them what to do. But this is another discussion.

Anyways, we often leave out that the Erie Canal was built upon the displacement of the Haudenosaunee following Sullivan's Expedition, dubious land sales, and broken treaties.

Mr. Kanien'kehá:ka, and his friends who make up the Haudenosaunee, were an extremely powerful force in the region prior to colonization. They made deals and treaties with the Dutch, French, and later the English that helped them maintain their power despite colonization, and allowed them to more easily facilitate trade. Some of these treaties included the Two Row Wampum with the Dutch. However, times change, and the Haudenosaunee increasingly become outnumbered by settlers and power has changed greatly too.

Mr. Kanien'kehá:ka thinks that Jennie, and Alfred who are the successors to these treaties (which are deeply regarded in his culture) will uphold them. But Jennie and subsequently Alfred view the Haudenosaunee as a hinderance to the expansion of their borders, of their land, and of their power (as in to expand, but also to show they can maintain independence from Europe). Furthermore, Jennie nor Alfred for that matter necessarily saw the point of upholding a treaty with a nation that was "in their way", and did not see themselves as the successor of treaties like the Two Row Wampum (they did sign the Treaty of Canandaigua but that also isn't really upheld) as they took power for themselves with independence and did not necessarily inherit the power thus believed they were not beholden to the inheritance of treaty.

Another thing to note is they don't really like Mr. Kanien'kehá:ka cause he sided with Arthur during the revolution, he's actually lowkey excluded from the Treaty of Canadaigua as per the American version of the story...but the Haudenosaunee highkey do everything together so....Also I have Mr. Kanien'kehá:ka direclty confronting Jennie rather than Ms. Onoñda'gegá who holds a more treaty/peace-making role, because Mr. Kanien'kehá:ka holds a more of a warrior/protector role and Jennie is being aggressive (is putting it lightly).