Social and Cultural Accommodation.

In 1754 many Native American people living in the trans-Appalachian region had been in close contact with white colonists for at least one hundred years, and their way of life combined Indian and European ways. Indians relied on a range of manufactured tools, weapons, pots, and decorative items. In fact the consumer revolution among the Indians was well underway in the late 1600s and early 1700s, well ahead of the trend in the white-settled areas of British America. Many influential figures among Indians and whites crossed over from one cultural sphere to another, speaking various European and Indian languages and intermarrying, and forming political alliances between the two rapidly merging worlds. In New England some Indians still lived in traditional wigwams, but they filled them with Europeanmanufactured furniture and decorative items. Some members of the Oneida tribe of the...