Rebellion: The Causes Of The Pontiac Rebellion

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The Pontiac Rebellion, named after an Ottawa leader, was a group of rebellious Indians who were taught from a Delaware religious prophet named Neolin. Neolin instructed his people to end their ties with the whites, stop using their technologies and to remove British from their territory. “In the spring and summer of 1763, Ottawas, Hurons, and other Indians besieged Detroit, then a major British military outpost, seized nine other forts, and killed hundreds of white settlers who had intruded onto Indian lands” (Foner, 172). London then issue the Proclamation of 1763, which could stop further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and was reserved for the Indians to keep their land. As a result it enrages both the sesttleres and

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