Native American Vs Indian Land Research Paper

Back when the United States wasn’t so immense and powerful, its people and their leaders wanted to expand. The people thought that the entire country should be theirs, and anyone who stood in their way, including the Native Americans, would pay for it. Manifest destiny was the “motto” for the country in this time. The first railroad that could cross the entire country was built. This encouraged many to move out west. While this was good for the Americans, it might not have been so good for the Native Americans. Native American land and culture was impacted by western expansion of the United States because of the Transcontinental Railroad, and the United States army, or militias, and government.

New England colonists attempted to give all people a plot of land that was the same size. In the Articles of Agreement, article three states “that every inhabitant shall have a conventional proportion for a house lot, as we shall see fit for everyone’s quality and estate” (Document D). This document talks about how the plan for colonists in new England was to make it so that all men were treated equal, as they believed was the case in God’s eyes. However, this plan was far different than what was used in the Chesapeake colonies. Carolinian land was given to those who could afford the trip, at 150 acres per family member. However, slaves were counted as family members, so the rich who could afford lots of slaves were given huge plots of land incredibly disproportional compared to the plots of lands to middle class farmers. These humongous plots of land led to the rice and indigo plantations along the coast or Carolina. The large variance from smaller plots to large plantations in the Chesapeake colonies caused a great difference in how land was given as well as the variance from the wealthiest to the poorest in terms of the amount of land they were

Both had to be recognized and accepted by the other villages or communities. Since the land was a divided boundaries, Europeans had deeds for the land, records of ownership, that made it accessible to sell and buy land. Since the Indians thought of the land as free for anyone to use, nor did they have the need for money, therefore the Indians couldn’t buy land and Europeans believed that they were indigent.

For most Americans, our ancestors came to the United States to own land and it was true if you were a white male. The right to own land in the United States has not been a reality for much of people in the US without a long struggle to change laws regarding citizenship and land ownership. At the time of the Revolutionary War and the writing of the constitution, land ownership was limited to “citizens”. Becoming a citizen, even if a person was born in the United States was quite muddy. The decision of who could be a citizen or own land was left up to the individual states. Persons of various ethnicities were legally denied citizen status for years in many states. In addition to persons who are citizens, particularly

The strongest legal arguments in favour of the Native Americans was the dispute over land rights. The Native Americans have lived here in the United States long before anyone else. Their belief in the inheritance of the land is expressed in the Niles weekly register, which states “The land on which we stand, we have received as an inheritance from our fathers, who possessed it from time immemorial, as a gift from our common father in heaven.” By definition, ownership is said to be original, where the owner has brought the property into human control for the first time, as by occupying land or capturing a wild animal, or derivative, where the owner acquires from the previous owner as in a sale. Therefore, the Native Americans maintained ownership of lands in which they did not either sell or lose in treaties that were signed. The removal of Indians from their homes would not only immoral but illegal. Despite having legally acquired

In 1776, the Revolutionary War was fought to gives us the rights and the land we love. Through the Frontier Movement, settlers sought to establish a sea to sea exploration and development of the West. Publishing Homestead Act and other such land grabs, the U.S. government inspired a procession of settlement from Savannah to San Francisco. In all of this, the incentive was the acquisition of land, all of the exploration, the settlement was pushed by the idea of personal property. To finally have something they could call their own and that thought drew

We, the French, do so believe that we deserve the land in the Ohio River Valley for numerous reasons. For one, we found the land before the British and are better tenants as we are paying the natives to rent their land. Secondly, we could use the resources for our incredibly fruitful fur trade. Thirdly, we have better military strategies.

At first, it was the Spaniards who wanted the vast amount of Navajo land hoping to find gold there. Americans then wanted to follow the idea of Manifest Destiny and spread

The town of Milton Vermont lies on the edge of Chittenden County, on Lake Champlain and was chartered on June 8th 1763 by the New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth. However the town did not have its first settlers until February of 1782. Some of the first settlers included William Irish, Leonard Owen, Amos Mansfield, Absalom Taylor and Thomas Dewey. (family search) Noah Smith was also a key player in the creation of Milton Falls; in 1788 he owned most of the land in the town. He made two sawmills and many other establishments in Milton. He then donated most of the land. At the time Milton was chartered it covered 67 miles of mostly forest and fertile land for farming. As the Railroad grew to pass through Milton

I found the set of dioramas at the bottom of page 99 to be intriguing. These three dioramas have been created as a way to present the many changes the Vermont Land has been through in a little over one-hundred years’ time. In the first diorama, we are shown a representation of what a portion of Vermont’s land may have looked like in the early- to mid-1700s. During this time of early settlement in Vermont, settlers were confronted with a closed-in landscape consisting of dense forests. A settler during this time could struggle to see the potential the land held, due to the reduced visibility among the cluttered topography. The next diorama depicts the begging changes the settlers had on Vermont’s unique lands. Within the description of

In 1624 the Dutch West India Company sent a ship carrying 30 Belgian families to settle the territory claimed in 1609. This territory was claimed by the English explorer, employed by the Dutch, Henry Hudson, as New Netherland. The Dutch, in order to ensure peace with the natives, ‘bought’ the island of Manhattan from the local Lenape Indians. The Lenape, who did not understand the European view of property ownership thought they were signing an agreement of mutual ownership of the land. This is just one example of an early wedge of mistrust placed between the small Dutch colony and surrounding Native American populations. Flash-forward to 1638 a new governor, Willem Kieft, was put in charge of New Netherland and the relationship between the Dutch and Lenape quickly deteriorated.

Relationship with the Land Polar, conflicting, opposite, divergent, contradictory: all words to describe how the American Indians view their relationship with the land versus the worldview of the Western culture in the United States. Land as a worldview defined by American Indians is the Earth respected and shared by everyone for the benefit of themselves while Western culture defines it as territory used for economic expansion. When the Europeans discovered North America, they saw it as an opportunity to expand their territory and economic well-being. The only problem was that there were people already inhabiting the area that conflicted with their beliefs. American Indians thought this was disrespectful because not only were the Europeans invading their space, they were taking their land away from them.

We have been tracking on this expedition for four months now, and we have found friendship in the natives. In fact, many of them are helping us, and, dare I essential to our expedition. There have been a few altercations, but they all have been easily resolved. For example, in September, we came across the Teton Sioux tribe. They are nomadic and warlike, even so, we were going to treat them in the friendliest manner possible.

after landing in Plymouth, the land was divided into private lots and distributed to male heads of households, not just for use, but for ownership in the sense a 21st century Vermonter would understand.

of the natives of the land and later on occupying it with settlers and utilizing it economically.