The late 1600's were interesting times for getting a handle on the basis for the establishment of these United States. I got sucked into the history of the Northwest Territories, which lead me in a roundabout way to this paragraph: "New York had long claimed sovereignty over the Five Nations of the Iroquois, which the Iroquois acknowledged when it was to their advantage, and ignored when it was not. This ambiguity led New York into constant diplomatic difficulties with other colonies. Iroquois raids on Virginia and Maryland were an embarrassment, and (New York governor Thomas) Dongan arranged conferences in two successive years at Albany. The Iroquois leaders apologized for their young hotheads and blamed the French in Canada for arming them. Agreements were reached, gifts were exchanged, but raiding parties continued southward. The Iroquois promised not to make any treaties without checking first with Dongan, then went ahead and made a formal treaty with the French anyway, and almost immediately broke it. Their understanding of power politics and the nature of treaties was virtually European. " My emphasis- this makes me laugh. (This is not intended to dismiss in any way the horrors of what the European invaders did on the North American continent, so save your virtue signaling, k?)
The lecture this quote is taken from is all about the lovely folks of East Hampton and how they obtained a patent from Governor Dongan and why it was of a peculiar nature, which story is also informative in light of the recent activities at the US Capitol, and where the sovereign power of government comes from. It was, and is, about the Benjamins (and I don't specifically mean the Rothschilds)!