re: Sometimes three -- Squanto played both sides against the middle.
Thank you.
I took a course on the Cherokee over here and was presented with both sides.
Clash of cultures. When the Cherokee were offered certain items that made their lives easier from the British and American commanders, they were eager to trade, but found instead their land being taken, bit by bit. The greed and wiley plans of the commanders were used to outsmart and indebt the chiefs. Some rebelled viciously. Things haven't changed much today.
It's a sad story to some extent. Human greed, corruption, violence, retaliation.
Nothing new. It's called progress.