[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] quois" (Gallatin, 55), but such does not 395. appear to be the fact, except as they were 258 THE INDIAN 7RIBES vited the northern and western Indians thither and delivered to them speeches " setting forth the danger all their nations were in, from the designs of the English, who, they said, had it in view to possess all their country." x From them also came the invitation to the tribes to remove further down the Ohio, with a view to make their organization more compact and formidable, an invitation which Custalaga, a Lenape chief, with one hundred of his followers, accepted, and was very soon after followed by larger delegations,2 animated by a common feeling of resistance. With the alliance of the Shawanoes and the Mahican clans, the Lenapes were now more powerful than the Six Nations them selves,3 and, no longer taunted as women, but recognized as brothers by them, they prepared to contest the supremacy of the colonists. The prejudice against the colonists, which was entertained by the western tribes, was, as has been already shown, equally bitter on the part of the Senecas, over whom Johnson with great difficulty maintained even a nominal control, and the feeling was largely shared by what were called the Upper nations of the confederacy. The Mohawks, Oneidas and Tuscaroras had less interest in the western controversy. Under the treaty of