 While most northeastern tribes, such as Joseph Brant's Mohawks, aligned themselves with the British, the Stockbridge tribes cast their lot with the colonies.Led by Jehoiaikim Mtohksin and Abraham Nimham, they were the first Native American soldiers to fight against the British, during the American Revolutionary War.In 1774, as the revolution began to get under way in Massachusetts, members of the Stockbridge tribes met at the Red Lion Inn to pledge their loyalty to the American cause