Empire Of The Summer Moon Summary

This book adds a different take on the colonial period in America that I was never taught in school. I was always taught that the settlers in America were the ones that killed and berated the Indians. I never learned that the Indians in Canada had attacked the colonial settlers and brought them to Canada. The French and the English fighting is not a surprise, as everyone wants the best land they can find and will fight over it. I would not have thought that the French would go so far as to captivate New England citizens and ransom them off. With this piece of information it makes much more sense that the colonists would be mean to the Indians, as the Indians had caused their families to die and they had to pay large amounts of money to get their family back. Some may not have been able to get family members back, or even see them. If you were to be kidnapped, your family taken, and ransomed off

Looking throughout the overwhelming events the American Revolution had on everyone involved, allows us to examine how the governments’ policies toward the Indians changed over time. It shows how the policy changes effected the Indians as well as the Americans’, their attitudes toward each other as the American’s pushed westward and the Indians resisted. Then the actions on both sides which lead up to the final removal of all Indians to west of the Mississippi in 1830’s.

The Comanche tribe and Prophetstown represent drastically different stories of the roles of Native Americans in American Expansion. The Comanche were a conglomerate of multiple tribes that shared an economy based on horses and buffalo hunting. They acted as a controlling force, limiting European and American power in the Southwest. Prophetstown was a single unified tribe formed by shared religious belief in the Prophet, Tenskwatawa. In the Midwest, Native tribes signed treaties to sell the United States land that they either had weak claims to or had little interest in selling due to blackmail and deception. One reason for the formation of the city at Prophetstown was that natives saw their impending loss of their homes and sought to band together

The Comanche Campaign was a generalization of multiple battles and wars between the United States government and the Comanche tribes. Most of the wars were fought between 1867 and 1875 in the freshly settle wild west. The United States military fought against different Comanche tribes in numerous expeditions until the Comanche people surrounded and surrendered. After peace was established between the Natives and the United States, the Comanche people were relocated to a reservation. In the late 1800’s different ideas and proposals, such as the Manifest Destiny and Homestead Act, fueled the expansion of American settlement out West.

“During the eighteenth and earl nineteenth centuries, while the Spanish were approaching Texas from the south and the Americans and French from the east, another people, more formidable than either the Europeans or the Americans, entered Texas from the north” (Brands 44). This group was called the Comanche tribe whom were ready to explore. The Spanish liked the

The Comanche Tribe is made up of brilliant horsemen who took control of the Southern Plains. They are most known for playing a large role in Texas frontier during most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although the Comanche’s lived near the upper reaches of the Platte River in eastern Wyoming, they later established themselves from western Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandle into New Mexico. Today, currently 5,000 Comanche’s live near Lawton, Oklahoma; their tribal headquarters.

Living quite close to the Gulf of Mexico, The Comanche people were located in Southern Texas, North-Eastern New Mexico, South-Eastern Colorado, South-Western Kansas and Western Oklahoma. Spiritual stories: The Comanche people had many stories about how they were created, animals and much more subjects. Some of the Comanche people’s stories were: How the buffalo was released onto Earth This story is about a powerful being called Humpback and his son, all the buffalo were theirs and the wouldn’t share so the coyote sneaked in and freed them all. Skunk outwits the coyote

1. Read the following from John Smith’s History of Virginia. In your own words, explain the incident Smith described. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between the English settlers at Jamestown and the natives they encountered? What does it tell us about the condition of the English at the time?

Brian Delay wants the reader to be informed about the significance of the Indian people and how it plays a huge role in the U.S. Mexican War. He discusses how the Comanches, Navajos, Apaches, Kiowas, and others reshaped the Mexican territory in which was later disputed by the Americans. Furthermore, he explains how many Mexicans and Americans forget that the Indian tribes were enemies that cause U.S. to interfere with and view Mexico differently. The Indian tribes were a cause of Mexican weakness and the betrayal of the Americans of the Mexican people. In other words, Delay explains that Indian people were the definite cause that led to the international conflict.

In around 1680, the Comanche got their first horses from the Spanish and Pueblo Indians

In Montana 1948, Wesley Hayden struggles with enforcing laws on his brother, whom Wesley has felt grateful for since he “saved our [Wesley’s friend and himself] bacon” (Watson 152) in the Highdog brother incident, and providing justice for the murder of Marie Little Soldier, a Native American girl who took took care of Davy from a very young age. This conflict, is further intensified with the sharp stigma and racism surrounding Native American’s in the traditional town of Bentrock, Montana in the year of 1948.

Horses were introduced to the southern plains Indians by the Spanish who settled in New Mexico. The Jumanos, a tribe that occupied the Texan plains, acquired horses through trade even before the Spanish settled in New Mexico. The Jumanos’ long time rivals, the Apaches, became skillful raiders and riders by the 1650s.These cultures were able to quickly adapt to equestrianism because of the compatibility of horses with the environment of the Southern Plains. The region provided a lot of grass, the main food staple of horses. Horses helped the Indians with buffalo hunts and nomadism. Both the Jumanos and Apaches were easily able to incorporate horses into their societies, but their horse cultures did not last. The Apaches used their newfound power to obliterate the Jumanos. Shortly after this, a new tribe came down from the Arkansas Valley called the Comanches that had a specialized mounted hunting system.The Comanches invaded the grasslands and rapidly became equestrian, mastering mounted nomadism, hunting, and warfare within a generation. The Comanches started a guerrilla war with the Apaches over grassland for their herds, and by 1760, the Apaches were wiped from the Southern Plains.

The Comanche Indians were greatly feared they had two mottos horses and war. Fear was so great that settlers abandoned the land. According to Empire of the Summer Moon it was said about these warriors Captain Robert G. Carter, Mackenzie's subordinate, who witnessed its aftermath, the victims were stripped, scalped, and mutilated. Some had been beheaded and others had their brains scooped out. "Their fingers, toes and private parts had been cut off and stuck in their mouths," wrote Carter, "and their bodies, now lying in several inches of water and swollen or bloated beyond all chance of recognition, were filled full of arrows, which made them resemble porcupines." (7) The Comanche adapted to the growth of this new nation and it was incredibly hard to defend against them. This type of brutality fed into the fear that all Indians were dangerous. So it is know wonder that as America grew the best idea was to keep Indians in one location.

The Anglo Population developed differently from the Comanche tribes in a multitude of different ways. The first and the beginning of the Anglo Population development was the Parker family. The Parker family was one of the first to move into the area of present-day Dallas, which, at the time, was in Indian Territory. Needless to say, this was an extremely dangerous area. They built the dream of some settlers, “…a one-acre fort on the property containing four blockhouses, six log cabins, and a bullet proof front gate, all enclosed by sharpened, cedar-timber was fifteen feet high” (Gwynne 14). Even though the Native Americans destroyed the fort and kidnapped some people, including Cynthia Ann Parker, it still was the beginning of the development

In the book Empire of the Summer moon By: S.C. Gwynne writes in the epic saga about a pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches, as a nine-year-old girl. Cynthia Ann Parker has mixed-blood son Quanah Parker, who later become the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. From the book Empire of the Summer Moon it was stated "that the war with the Comanches lasted four decades and in the effect, there was a holding up the development of the New American nation, the argument that is being claimed is that there were a rise and fall of the Comanches." S.C. Gwynne ."The rise of Quanah," in Empire of the Summer Moon