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		+	Deceit plays a large factor in the relations between the Ottawas and the British during Volume two. Colonel de Haldimar often accuses the Indigenous people of being deceitful. One of the first examples is when de Haldimar says: ““Does the great chief of Ottawas, then, seek for peace in his heart at length?” Resumed the governor; “or is he come to the strong hold of Detroit, as he went to the other strong holds, with deceit on his lips?”” (Volume 2, Chapter 4, Page 160).
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		+	In this quotation, the Colonel is suspicious towards the chief and brings this up with an Indigenous warrior. There is some sarcasm in de Haldimar’s tone here, and it seems like his question is more rhetorical than anything else. Despite what the Indigenous person answers, de Haldimar has reason to believe that the chief will be deceitful and untrustworthy. This stems from anxieties towards the Ottawas, especially considering that they dwell in the forest, which has been labelled as unfamiliar and mysterious territory for the British.
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		+	In a conversation with the Ottawas, de Haldimar says: “The Saganaw knew that they carried deceit in their hearts, and that they never meant to smoke the pipe of peace, or to bury the hatchet in the ground.” (Volume 2, Chapter 6, Page 181). The Colonel wants to gain the Ottawas trust. To do this, he makes himself seem like the hero who is letting the Ottawas go despite the Ottawas being “deceitful” people. The Colonel attempts to make the Ottawas uncomfortable with their ways. However, the British are not without deceit themselves. The Ottawas must decide whether or not to trust the Colonel and admit that they have been wrongfully deceitful, or they may suspect that this is all a tactic by the British, who are using their own methods of deceit.
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		+	An important moment in which the Ottawas plot to deceive the British comes with the chief’s plan to make his way into the council. The quotation says: “The red or war-pipe, was to be substituted as if by accident; and, for the success of the deception, they were to presume on the ignorance of their enemies.” (Volume 2, Chapter 8, Page 198). The Chief’s elaborate plan includes faking a moment of surrender to the British. The Ottawas will pretend to be smoking the pipe of peace, but banking on the ignorance of the British, they will actually be smoking the war pipe. The Ottawas are directly putting deceit into action. And, they are using their enemy’s ignorance towards their own culture to do so.
		+	Deceit is advanced in volume two through the conflict between the Ottawas and the British. While volume one focuses more on the suspicions of deceit through a member one of the British’s own, this volume makes more work of demonstrating how the British already see the Ottawas as deceitful beings, and how the two parties make use of trickery against each other. Overall this volume reveals the tensions between the Ottawas and the British, and how both parties wish to outsmart one another.
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Contents 1 Group 3 – Deceit 2 Introduction 3 Volume 1 4 Volume 2 5 Volume 3 6 Conclusion

Group 3 – Deceit

Introduction

Volume 1

Volume 2

Deceit plays a large factor in the relations between the Ottawas and the British during Volume two. Colonel de Haldimar often accuses the Indigenous people of being deceitful. One of the first examples is when de Haldimar says: ““Does the great chief of Ottawas, then, seek for peace in his heart at length?” Resumed the governor; “or is he come to the strong hold of Detroit, as he went to the other strong holds, with deceit on his lips?”” (Volume 2, Chapter 4, Page 160).

In this quotation, the Colonel is suspicious towards the chief and brings this up with an Indigenous warrior. There is some sarcasm in de Haldimar’s tone here, and it seems like his question is more rhetorical than anything else. Despite what the Indigenous person answers, de Haldimar has reason to believe that the chief will be deceitful and untrustworthy. This stems from anxieties towards the Ottawas, especially considering that they dwell in the forest, which has been labelled as unfamiliar and mysterious territory for the British.

In a conversation with the Ottawas, de Haldimar says: “The Saganaw knew that they carried deceit in their hearts, and that they never meant to smoke the pipe of peace, or to bury the hatchet in the ground.” (Volume 2, Chapter 6, Page 181). The Colonel wants to gain the Ottawas trust. To do this, he makes himself seem like the hero who is letting the Ottawas go despite the Ottawas being “deceitful” people. The Colonel attempts to make the Ottawas uncomfortable with their ways. However, the British are not without deceit themselves. The Ottawas must decide whether or not to trust the Colonel and admit that they have been wrongfully deceitful, or they may suspect that this is all a tactic by the British, who are using their own methods of deceit.

An important moment in which the Ottawas plot to deceive the British comes with the chief’s plan to make his way into the council. The quotation says: “The red or war-pipe, was to be substituted as if by accident; and, for the success of the deception, they were to presume on the ignorance of their enemies.” (Volume 2, Chapter 8, Page 198). The Chief’s elaborate plan includes faking a moment of surrender to the British. The Ottawas will pretend to be smoking the pipe of peace, but banking on the ignorance of the British, they will actually be smoking the war pipe. The Ottawas are directly putting deceit into action. And, they are using their enemy’s ignorance towards their own culture to do so. Deceit is advanced in volume two through the conflict between the Ottawas and the British. While volume one focuses more on the suspicions of deceit through a member one of the British’s own, this volume makes more work of demonstrating how the British already see the Ottawas as deceitful beings, and how the two parties make use of trickery against each other. Overall this volume reveals the tensions between the Ottawas and the British, and how both parties wish to outsmart one another.

Volume 3

Conclusion