Native tribes were slaughtering each other and warring constantly
There was also a very active intertribal slave trade, especially amongst the Ojibwa tribes. Part of the reason they were sided with the French was because of their support of slavery. The Haudenosaunee sides with the British, which is why they were treated favourably compared to others in the treaties. What happened to all the neutral tribes that would not take a side? Slaughtered to the point where their names aren’t even remembered, by other tribes, with guns.