# Indigenous Alliances During Colonial Conflicts

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118425706115850566
- Source account: [@solicee1](https://x.com/solicee1)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:52
- Published: 2026-11-05
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- Canonical URL: https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts

## Transcript

[0:00](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts) Most Indian nations sided with the French.

[0:07](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=7) We felt very close to the French, because they had no designs on our land.

[0:16](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=16) They weren't coming to colonize us. If they wanted to live with us, they married Indian women and were welcome.

[0:27](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=27) The English, on the other hand, are known to be colonizers.

[0:32](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=32) The sun must never set on the British Empire.

[0:36](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=36) And they want colonies everywhere. For them, the New World was no exception.

[0:42](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=42) That's what they came for.

[0:46](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=46) In 1760, after six years of war, the French shocked their Indian allies in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes by abruptly leaving the region.

[0:57](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=57) While they continued fighting elsewhere, the English army occupied their abandoned forts.

[1:06](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=66) You English have defeated the French, but you have not defeated us yet.

[1:15](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=75) We are not your slaves. These lakes, these woods, and these mountains were bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

[1:25](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=85) This is our heritage and we will surrender it to no one.

[1:31](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=91) An Ottawa who fought with the French and witnessed their departure refuses to give up the fight.

[1:39](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/RJAHw4QvDtk1/transcript-of-indigenous-alliances-during-colonial-conflicts?t=99) His name is Pontiac. The night he was born, it snowed, it rained, there was wind, lightning, thunder, and shooting stars.