CSPAN3 American History TV November 22, 2015
We are standing in a salt boiling brock. Boiling block. This area was very important ,hroughout the colonial period because it was the center of what we know today as the uruguay confederacy. Iroquois confederacy. There were various missionaries, explorers, soldiers coming into this area. They were the first to notice the salt brine as far as europeans. The significance of salt brining around the lake was noted very early on during the colonial period. It did not get a chance to be exploited until after the american revolution, when a variety of different treaties concentrated local native peo...