[muawiyah]

They were paid off. Trust had nothing to do with it. Turns out, though, that the US eventually had to adopt the Brit method of buying off the tribes and gradually moving them "West".

[U S Army EOD]

I have a lot of local records here in Georgia where I live to back up what I am saying. In the South, during the American Revolution, the war was probably closer to a civil war than it was a revolution. There were many, many loyalist and the local Indians here were among them. Even during the war of 1812, the Creeks still trusted the Crown and looked down on the "Americans" at that time as being a bunch of low life, dishonorable people.

An interesting note with my mother. She was raise in the 1930's South as a high class white woman. When she and my father were stationed in California during WWII. There was one hotel who would not let them in due to her dark skin color and native American facial features. Her brother, who was in the Navy was basically adopted by a West Coast tribe who use to take him fishing all the time when he was out there.