Payne's Landing Treaty

Treaty of Fort Gibson - Seminole tribes would be moved into the western part of the creek nation.

The making of the treaty was a problem and a conflict for several reasons. One is that the Indians didn’t like it. They were very afraid of being moved onto a reservation. They hated being on reservations because they knew that the Americans were going to put them on the same reservation as 40 other tribes. Plus they didn’t want to move onto the same place with an enemy tribe!(Schuster 65) Neither would I. They would probably get into a fight or an all out war actually! Furthermore there were hardly any resources for one tribe, so how were they going to feed several? Especially when there were hundreds in each tribe! (Lambert, 150) Another reason the Indians didn’t like the treaty was because they couldn’t tell if the Americans were telling the truth, America had broken promises and ripped up treaties with other nations and tribes before, why not this one? Then there was the reason about not wanting to cede their land. It was theirs to keep. They had rightfully claimed that land and who were the settlers to take it? They had made that land livable and they were not about to give it up to a nation that was greedy and selfish in their eyes. Another reason why they didn’t like the treaty was that they didn’t want to give up their land. They wanted to be able to hunt and grow plants and fish, use their own herbs, use their own spices without having to beg, buy, and starve.

The whole point of the meeting was to come to an agreement over disputes of land claims between colonies and Indian nations including the Iroquois. Though, through trickery, the Iroquois had ceded to the colonies land “from sea to sea”.2(p. 187) This meant land from the Ohio Valley all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Needless to say the Indians involved were disappointed and angered.

The Treaty of Moultrie Creek in 1823 stipulated that the Seminoles would surrender any land claims within Florida in exchange for official protection by the United States, monetary funding, and a large reservation located in central Florida. The location was designated far enough inland

Many Indians had clamored for peace from the fighting and welcomed the proclamation as a declaration of peace. Colonists in the area were irate for multiple reasons. One reason was the catastrophic loss of life from the Indian attacks that had left thousands dead and multiple settlements destroyed. Man colonists were upset with Britain’s decision to grant these lucrative lands to the enemies that had plagued their lives over the past year, especially after the French had been successfully removed from the region by Britain. Britain had no way or possible intention of enforcing the proclamation. Attempts were made that required any settlers wishing to encroach or settle on Indian lands to first require authorization. Eventually, settlers began to migrate westward, with or without authorization. Britain in turn approached the Indian leaders and gave them an ultimatum: either sign over the lands or defy the crown and be destroyed. The Indians, who had received their fair share of casualties from the recent attacks, had no alternative but to sign over their lands to the British since rallying the French against the British was no longer an

Is when president Andrew Jackson order the army of the U.S to remove the Cherokee Indian out of their land. there were 7,000 solder that moved the Indians to their land too Oklahoma in 1835. how could the native could stop it from happening. this is what General Winfield Scott said to the Natives "this is no sudden determination on the part of the whom you and I must now obey by the treaty"( Gen.Winfield Scott's Address to the Cherokee Nation in 1835). if the Indian had sing the treat the thy would still have time. Then the other reason in that the u.s gave the native two years to move but the didn't move because the had hop. the way the could stop the is that they could in the summer time so they could died from the cold weather in the 1835. many of the native would be alive if they had move in a good

This treaty might have been a promise of a reasonable friendship but a true friendship is not made by rules. Document C it states, ¨ III. That if anything were taken away from any of theirs, he should cause it to be restored; and they should do the like to his.¨ This is telling us that if they steal from each other the must restore what they have stolen and they will get stolen from as well. But in Document E ¨ the English made them drunk and then cheated them in bargains … with land… value.¨ It also states, ¨ He constrained other Indians from wronging the English...¨ These two piece of evidence disprove rule number three of the treaty, ¨ That if anything were taken away from any of theirs, he should cause it to be restored; and they should do the like to his.¨ This is not the case since, the English stole their land in bad bargains and the Indians were not able to wrong them for this. Although this breaks the rules of their friendship they also had an unfair legal

After many attempts and one war before the second seminole war America realized they really need to demand changes and take action. The European Americans, American government and President Andrew Jackson felt that it was necessary to relocate the Seminoles from North of Lake Okeechobee to the west of the Mississippi river. The whites had intentions to remove all seminoles just so they can have the rich soil. Andrew Jackson decided to take action and divide Florida into two counties.

Later on “there was intense pressure to acquire Indian land, by debt-ridden states and a federal government anxious to use public land to pay off war debts, and from speculators who saw fortunes to be made from the sale of thousands of square miles of virgin timber and agricultural acreage, of waterways, mill sites, harbors, and so forth” (Wallace 30). Profits and paying off others were more important than the Indians and their rights. Due to these pressures and greed, “the U.S. commissioners at the Treaties of Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh, and Fort Finney in 1784, 1785, and 1786 “gave” peace to the Iroquois and the Indians of Ohio. In return, the Indians present at these meetings promised that their tribes would vacate much of their land north

In order to best rectify the unrest, St. Clair called a meeting with the Wyandot, Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa, Sauk, and Potawatomi natives. At this meeting the tribes requested that they be given the rights to the land north of the Ohio River. St. Clair did not agree to this request and instead re-designated to them an area of land that was already agreed upon in a previous treaty. The Treaty of Fort Harmar would have had more success if it had included all of the tribes that had been residing on the land being negotiated. The United States government had originally said that they would keep good faith in it’s dealings

This gave Americans wanting to settle the thriving state a possibility. Although, the Seminoles agreed to move onto a reservation in the state’s center, the greed of the settlers was unappeasable. On May 28,1830, The Indian Removal Act was passed by the Congress at President Andrew Jackson’s urging. The Indian removal act gave the government the authority to remove all of the Five Civilized Tribes east of the Mississippi to the Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma. While the bill specified that they needed consent of the Indians, in reality the situation was that those who didn’t go peacefully were forced to go

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was an implemented compromise which served the purpose of creating Maine’s boundary, and resolved the Caroline Affair of 1837. This Treaty was economically (WXT) significant for the U.S. because it gained an iron ore in Minnesota, as well as more land than England in

Many migrated south looking for better crop lands and game overhunted in the north, and to escape wars with Euro-Americans and enemy Indians. This paper will demonstrate that by the time of the U.S. occupation of Florida, government officials did not simply impose the common term Seminole on all Florida Indians as an inherited practice from former British and Spanish occupiers. Seminole resistance and treaty negotiations forced government officials to recognize a single Indian group, giving Florida Indians an identity they used to establish a sovereign status. Some Florida Indians preferred to maintain their Creek identity; others, especially those of a different heritage, embraced the Seminole reference to make a clean break from Creeks to affirm their own

The Indian removal policy of the US government got signed to law on May 28,1830 which gave the president the right to grant unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing borders. “A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.” Approximately 15,000 Cherokees had opposed the treaty because they wanted to keep their nation under their control not the U.S. government. The Cherokee Indians were moved west from the United States government during the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839. The leaders of the Cherokee nation had wrote a letter to congress to protest the treaty of Echota. Some of the Cherokee Indians had approved the treaty and signed their land into the U.S. government but majority

With the new American ideals of expansion and obsession over land, the Natives believed that Congress wasn’t respecting their Constitutional rights as domestic dependent nation. This belief led to hostility towards Congress which took many different forms. For example, John Ross the principal chief of the Cherokee tribe took a more diplomatic form of protest as he tried to bargaining with Congress. In an attempt to eradicate the removal act, Ross tried to “appeal to Jackson to enforce what they understood to be the protective guarantees embodied in previous treaties.” (Trail of tears pg 89) By using America’s word against itself, John Ross put up a formidable defense