[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that I hated such wicked practices, and the chiefs. — Colonial History, vin, 117. did not desire the Indians to become such They were repeatedly represented in the as these, and when he appeared calmer, conferences with the Delawares and the I asked him if he was willing that I should Shawanoes. 200 THE INDIAN TRIBES a river which enters the north shores of Lake Huron, between Point Tessalon and La Cloche. In pushing the policy which the government of New York had established, of promoting trade by securing the alliance of Indian tribes with the Six Na tions, the latter had been induced to open negotiations with many of their former enemies.1 As one of the fruits of this policy, the Necariages, a remnant of the once powerful Hurons, or Wyandots, had been induced to visit Albany, in 1723, and to ask to be received as the seventh nation. The commissioners of Indian affairs accepted them as such,2 but the confederates never acknowledged them. When the Mississagies tendered a similar alliance, however, they were received by the confederates, and at a conference, held at Albany on the 23d of August, 1746, were publicly acknowledged by them as the seventh nation.3 The al liance did not long continue. When the war of 1 755 broke out, it W£S found that the Six Nations were at war with their new allies.