Tanacharison… made it clear that all Indian alliances with European powers and their colonial kinfolk were temporary expediencies: “Both you & the English are White. We live in a Country between, therefore the Land does not belong either to one or the other; but the GREAT BEING above allow’d it to be a Place of Residence for us.”
Tanacharison or Tanaghrisson (c. 1700? – 4 October 1754) was an American Indian leader who played a pivotal role in the beginning of the French and Indian War. He was known to European-Americans as the Half King. Personal correspondence to George Washington as found in W.W. Abbot, Dorthy Twohig, eds., The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, 6 vols. (Charlottesville, 1987-). Quoted in Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington. Alfred A. Knopf. 2004. p.6
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