Native American War

Shawnee leader, Tecumseh, was not a happy Native. He blamed the greed and oppression of the Europeans for the destruction of the Native American cultures. The Europeans greed led them to strip the land from the Natives, and try in forcing their religion upon the Natives. Tecumseh believed that the land was for all. There was nothing about selling, taking, and giving the land away. The Europeans just did not have that mindset at all. Red Jacket was a Seneca leader. He was very discouraged of the fact that they took the land of the Natives, but even more because they wanted to force their religion upon the Native Americans. The Europeans were ruthless when it came to this. They did not think about their feelings and the actions that could hurt the Natives. (Doc 4, 5, 6)

Native Americans were discriminated against and forced out of their own lands because the Americans felt inferior towards them. In 1812 the British found themselves at war with the Americans and this was the Native peoples chance to once and for all defeat their white superiors. Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief but he was addressing Choctaws and Chickasaws because he is calling for Native American unity throughout the entire United States. He announces his alliance with the British who are fighting against the Americans in 1812. He urges other Native American tribes to do the same because they have a common enemy. Also, it will be harder to fight the Americans if they are a unified force instead of individual tribes all fighting the common enemy

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.

Before Europeans ever ventured to North America, the land had been populated by Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures and social structures. Native Americans had trade routes and established complex relationships between tribes. They were not merely heathens waiting to be civilized by the Europeans. Yet, Europeans would use those justifications to lay claim on their land.

Daniel Richter, an American historian, completed his literary work, Ordeal of the Longhouse in 1992. His purpose of writing this book was to illustrate the Native Americans’ side of the colonization of America and their interactions with the new colonizers, while emphasizing the ordeals that they faced at that time. Those ordeals included: disease, economic dependency, imperial struggles, and issues with their neighbors (2). Richter was out to prove that despite and because of these struggles, Iroquois culture, politics, and diplomacy evolved in the 17th and 18th century through their interactions with different groups of European peoples. These interactions have shaped Native American traditions as well as American diplomacy as we know it

Many Native Americans moved into the trans-Appalachian region creating a Middle Ground where there wasn’t colonial power yet. Europeans and Native Americans had trouble in coexisting due to the diseases brought by the Europeans and to their agricultural practices. On the Middle Ground, Natives and white people could be equal. In fact, they sought benefits from each other for the purpose of survival. The goal of the natives was to continue to trade metal goods and weapons with the Europeans because they saw trading as a way to survive. In the mean time, they Indians played English and French against each other. On the other hand, the increase of individual trading ended up harming the Native Americans’ structure of authority because they no

Even before the end of the war many of the Native Americans had grown to resent both European powers. They had felt betrayed by both and found that the fighting on their lands were useless. They had only chosen the French as an ally simply because they grew tired of the British’s push into their lands. This belief though did not go away after the war either. Yet just as the French and American colonists would grow tired of the British control so would the Native Americans. Their fears had grown over the years as they saw the rise in European diseases and death due to wars and they were just as tired as the rest of them. It did not matter that the British were going to try to settle them west of the Appalachians.

During the nineteenth century, in the developing America, Indians and white Americans had a very strained and stressed relationship. After the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, whites were granted land in the Northwest territory where Native Americans had already resided. Indians were beginning to realize that Americans were not the ideal companions, because they seized land, consumed mass amounts of resources without care, and did not treat the Earth as sacred as the Native Americans did. The Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh proposed a way for the Indians to regain the purity, and strength that they used to possess. Both men also wanted to clearly warn the Americans that if compromises were not made, there would be detrimental consequences.

The Snake war was arguably one of the most devastating Native American wars in the west, moreover Native Americans were trespassing into settlers land and settlers trespassing into Native American land caused this conflict. And in it multiple states were involved, multiple tribes and a multitude of people!

Like all Native Americans, the Shawnees were viewed savages and godless by Euro-Americans . Euro-Americans are Americans with European blood or they are simply “White”. The views that Euro-Americans or Whites had on the Shawnees are like how majority of minorities are viewed by the Euro-Americans. Nevertheless, Collin Calloway detailed Tecumseh and the Shawnee tribe. The Shawnee and the War for America destroyed this belief that Euro-Americans had on Native Americans as Collin Calloway showed his readers that the Shawnee tribe were well organized as any civilized society at the time. The relationship that the Shawnees had with the Europeans stretched to the British and French conflict in 1754 and from there the relationship with the Europeans

In relating the account of Native American tribes amid the Civil War, a large portion of the examination concentrates on the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast: the Cherokees, the Streams, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, and the Seminoles. A large number of the essential records, for example, letters. Also, speeches that survived the War are written in English. Since the bigger tribes, for example, the Cherokees and Brooks, favored the Alliance, the lion 's share of exploration has fundamentally concentrated on including them.

The Ohio Valley Native Americans were a disgruntled faction of the Iroquois Nation. In the years prior to King George’s War, they had a strong trade agreement with the French. However, as the French starting moving onto their lands, they began looking for a

            President Woodrow Wilson declared war on the German Empire in 1917. The need for troops inspired several men to volunteer to serve, while others, fearful of the outcome, were drafted into service. Close to 12,000 Native Americans were either drafted or volunteered to go to war against the German Empire, fighting with the same American settlers that had trespassed and taken their land a short time earlier, demonstrating their devotion and honor to fight for their homeland the one they now shared with their fellow American white settlers. This war was viewed as an open door to citizenship as long as the Native Americans fought bravely and were able to show their patriotism. The Indians

had sold only the right to use the land, not the land itself. They did

The Americans were expanding West. The Indians were already living in the West. Because of this, there was conflict. America wanted the Indians removed. Andrew Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act, forcing them to leave. The Authors’ perspectives of the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears shapes the reader's understanding of the events because they show us how the events affected the Indians and Americans.