The Seven Years’ War and the War of 1812, I think, fall into a different category from Pontiac’s Rebellion. In regards to the Seven Years’ War, I would not primarily refer to it as an Indigenous revolution—but I understand why it might be considered that way, at least partially. For Native communities, the Seven Years’ War had a huge effect on how Indigenous peoples interacted with colonizers because of the collapse of so many French forts, which meant no more using the French and British against each other to their advantage. During the war, though, people like the Lenni Lenape and Shawnee were emboldened to attack British forts, which was partially because of their alliance with the French, which, in turn, was due to the French valuing the various Native tribes as equals in trade more than the British did. Through that lens, the Seven Years’ War is certainly a sort of revolution for them, and changing sides when the French were not providing them with what they needed was a form of asserting their sovereignty.
In contrast, Pontiac’s Rebellion was certainly an Indigenous revolution in every aspect. The base ideology of Pan-Indigeneity as a catalyst for the revolution is not dissimilar from other revolutions like the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian revolution. When it’s boiled down, they all become a desire to escape the clutches of an overbearing controlling regime. In the Master of Life reading, the Master of Life says to the Wolf Indian “I love [the settlers] not, they know me not, they are my enemies and the enemies of your brothers. Send them back to the country which I made for them. There let them remain.” Religious motivations are certainly parts of the French, American, and Haitian revolutions, though more likely a desire for religious freedom, and in the Master of Life reading, the Master of Life says that “[the settlers] know me and pray to me,” so the religious conflict on the side of those observing Pan-Indigeneity does not stem from a desire for religious freedom expressly, though obviously the Indigenous peoples did not want to be converted to Christianity and the settlers most definitely wanted to convert the Natives to Christianity. I think what I’m meaning to say here, though it’s getting a little confused, is that the motivation for Pontiac’s Rebellion was not stated by Pontiac to be ‘I want Native communities to have religious freedom’ but religious freedom, and freedom from conversion by the Christians was certainly a motivation. All in all, lots of Indigenous revolution occurred between the Seven Years’ War and the War of 1812, with Pontiac’s Rebellion falling in the middle of the two!