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Question: Why did the Native Americans join the British and not the Patriots in the Revolutionary War!?
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Because of the Proclamation of 1763 which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains!. The Native Americans thought that they would be allowed to keep their land if the British won the war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the oneida nation sided with the colonists and even saved washington and his men from starvation at valley forge by bringing them their own winter stores of corn!. in return after the war washington ordered the destruction of all their villages!. i guess it doesn't pay to side with the invaders no matter which side they claim!.

Washington claimed there was no difference in "Indians" from wolves, helping to justify overwhelming hatred of Native People whom he labeled redskin savages:
"BOTH BEING BEASTS OF PREY, THO' THEY DIFFER IN SHAPE!."
-George Washington, President of the United States of America (Stannard)

The facts concerning George Washington are not taught school children!. He was a hater of Native Americans even during the time when their wealth and alliances provided him with great personal fortune!.

Native Americans were called redskins without religious beliefs!.
These words of hatred gave permission to European Americans to terrorize, kill, maim and destroy Native Americans physically and culturally!. Words are bad enough, but his behavior was unbelievable!. He waged a personal war of genocide instructing Major General John Sullivan in 1779 to hunt the Mohawk like wild animals and to:

"Lay waste all the settlements around!.!.!. that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed," urging the general not to "listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected!." Sullivan did this reporting he had, "destroy[ed] everything that contributes to their support" turning "the whole of that beautiful region from the character of a garden to a scene of drear and sickening desolation!." Washington's troops amused themselves by skinning the bodies of Indians "from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggins!."
-Anthony F!.C,!. Wallace, the Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (Knoph, 1979)
George Washington's troops skinned Native Americans like animals!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They didn't necessarily!. There were issues with the British and Native Americans after the French and Indian War!.There had been conflicts with the colonists since they had landed on American/Indian soil!.

From Shmoop History:

Europeans and Americans had long maligned the Native Americans for practicing "uncivilized" methods of warfare; traditional protocol among Old World nations had dictated a formal set of rules for battle!. (Both sides were to assume tight formations and wage open battles that were clearly planned out beforehand!.) But now, knowledge of the terrain and the element of surprise became key tools that colonists and their Indian allies employed to their best advantage!.Www@QuestionHome@Com