On the dot of time in history, two very culturally distinct and ethnically dissimilar worlds sought to “negotiate” and homogenize for the sake of peace and progress in their individual realms but as it turned out, they got more than they bargained for, much more. Echoing the words of Herbert Hoover, that “Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men”, is the inference of the effort and relationship of these two distinct worlds and how it all ended in futility.
In Richard’s White pioneering work, “The Middle Ground”, where he expresses a ground on which the Europeans and the Indians found solace and succor as they “trade and formed alliance to become inseparable” (25). He relates the diplomatic relationship …show more content…
From mutual doubts, communication barriers, inadequate physiological and survival needs to intensified fear and how quickly amity vaporized to enmity. He further describes them by stating that “they were the ones who carried the letters, but did not sign and seal them; who memorized the speech on wampum belts, but did not draft it; who translated, but did not speak, at the grand councils; who stood between the tables crowded with colonial and Indian leaders at a treaty banquet to make sure that the liquor and talk flowed freely, but did not join the feast.” (33) The job of these go betweens was simple, they are to prevent or alleviate the consequential dispute between the whites and the Indians. Conrad Weiser, a German immigrant, Shickellamy, Croghan, Post and Montour would "downplay differences and play up-or, if need be, make up-areas of common ideology, common interest, and common experience" (p.