All right. Welcome everyone, today were going to be talking about diplomacy on the early american frontier, politically between native American Peoples and european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives that both native American Peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have an image here that is actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named while William Johnson. Not a lot of contemporary mark and students of history know much about him, but he was an interesting figure in the 18 century. He was an irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in the 17 forties and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately, he gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the Bri