The picture is “William Penn’s treaty with the Indians.” I hope you can open the attachment. Look at the Indians in the center of the picture, they are as white as Penn and his bunch. Also, if they stood up, they would be a foot taller than the Europeans. Some of the other Indians exhibit normal redskin pigmentation.

SS Sam

Thank you, Sam.

This scene is dated to 1683 and was painted a century later, a short time after the last of the Susquehanna Indians were murdered by former white slaves in south central Pennsylvania. The Caucasian appearance of the Indians in this painting might be based on the fact, that by the late 1700s, most bands had adopted significant numbers of captive and runaway whites. However, the illustrations of 200 years earlier, by the painter that accompanied Grenville and Lange on the second Roanoke expedition, also depicts Caucasian features, as do two paintings made in central Pennsylvania in the earlier 1700s, one dated at 1711, not demonstrating very good form but definitely depicting mixed-race natives. There is also the evidence of Welsh-speaking Indians in mid 1600s South Carolina, blonde Indians in Virginia in 1609, and Indians in Maine using stone swords in the late 1600s.

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