The Treaty of Canandaigua arose out of a combination of geo-political tensions. In the aftermath of its defeat in the American Revolutionary War, England was forced relinquish its land east of the Mississippi River to the United States.[1] However, England’s original rights to this territory were unclear, causing resentment among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, to whom the land originally belonged. Moreover, some Indigenous peoples at the western frontier of the United States remained loyal to the British after the American Revolutionary War and were hostile towards the United States.[2] The United States faced resentment from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy over their acceptance of land in the Ohio Valley from England and faced the threat of another war on its western frontier.