ABSTRACT
The Indians' Revolution that began in 1763 turned out to be as traumatic and as far-reaching as Variola. Throughout the trans-Appalachian West, bloody violence between Indians and whites made the frontier a dangerous place to live even after Pontiac's strikes against the British had ended. The American Revolution came to an end in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris, but that treaty did not in any way mark the end of the Indians' Revolution. Excluded from the proceedings of the Treaty of Paris, where a new North American order was hammered out, Indians had no say in the geopolitical realignment of eastern North America. The best way to examine the Indians' Revolution is as a continent-wide event. To approach Native American history with more breadth also involves following the United States after the American Revolution as it turned into an imperial continental force with which to be reckoned.
