USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Oneida and Mohawk were part of the Iroquois Confederacy. Of the six nations that belonged to the Confederacy, four, including the Mohawk, actively sided with the British, while the Oneida and Tuscarora supported the Revolutionaries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most important neighbors of the Mohawk tribe were the other Iroquois nations: the Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, and Cayuga. Before the Iroquois Confederacy the Mohawks sometimes fought with the other Iroquois tribes, but once the alliance was formed they were loyal to each other.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many tribes such as the Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee and Creek fought with British loyalists. Others, including the Potawatomi and the Delaware, sided with American patriots.

Detailed explanation-4: -Brant was a Mohawk Indian who aligned himself with the British during the Revolutionary War. Unlike the Oneida Indians, who fought with the rebel colonists, the Mohawks cast their lot with England. Brant wanted the British to help the Indians get their land back from the colonists.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two of the nations, the Oneida and Tuscarora, chose to side with the Americans while the other nations, including the Mohawk, fought with the British.