The Iroquois Confederacy sided with the British during the French and Indian War. The Iroquois Confederacy claimed that it owned the lands that made up the Ohio Country. The British government, which argued that the Iroquois were their subjects, used the Iroquois claim to assert that it held legal title to the land.
When the French and Indian War broke out in 1754, the Mohawk Indians who lived in the Mohawk River Valley of upper State New York sided with the British while the Mohawk Indians who lived in Canada sided with the French.
