The American Of Native Americans

As a rule, the Native Americans are perhaps the most overlooked sector of the population of the colonies. This war completely varied their knowledge of their land and its value. “We know our lands have now become more valuable,” (Document B). No more would they be fooled by

During the time of 1763-1775, one of the occurrences that happened to affect the colonists’ perception of the British was the French and Indian War. The war itself was not the main reason the colonists’ had trouble with the British, but the time after the war was the actual cause of eventual trouble. During the war, the British fought with France around the Ohio valley for the control of land. The Ohio valley was very important to both of the empires, because of the land value and the strategic location it held in the years to come. Both had their struggles especially with the Native Americans that called this area their home. Most of the Native Americans sided with either the British or the French because they thought that if they had sided with

When the English settlers began their colonization of America, they were unsure on how to approach the indigenous people. They were not prepared for a war initially, nor did they have all of the supplies required to survive. In chapter one of, Lethal Encounters Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia, Albert Cave describes Sir Walter Raleigh’s decisions about the Roanoke colonial and Indian policies. Raleigh instructed the settlers to treat the Natives with ‘kindness and generosity’ (Cave, Lethal Encounters Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia, pg 11). The English settlers recognized the

Prior to the Revolutionary War, the Native Americans were considered to be an essential part to learning and living on the North American landscape. However, after the relationship between the Colonists and British tensed, the Native Americans found themselves in the middle of a war that would divide the Native American people. However, during the course of the war, the Native Americans had to consider who they should fight with/for. While both sides, the British and the Colonists, professed the benefits of fighting with/for them, the Native Americans’ decision would determine the fate of many Indian generations during the course of expansion in North America. On one side, the British offered diplomacy, land, and economic expansion; on the other, the Colonists promoted freedom, equality, and the promise of land. The struggle of the tribes to decide which side to fight for would prove to be the true battle that many of them would face. However, the relationships of the Native Americans and the English people did not start with the Revolution; it began almost two-hundred years prior in the settlement of Jamestown.

Native American, or American Indians, have a rich culture comprised of struggle, strife and success. For this paper, i will discuss the Native American Culture and it's history.

According to Thomas Riggs, “The British were concerned that settlers who moved to lands west of the Appalachians would lose direct contact with the British Empire and form economic ties with the Mississippi River valley, then under Spanish control. Such settlers might also find it less expensive to manufacture some goods for themselves rather than importing them from England, thereby undercutting imperial trade” (Riggs). This shows that the British were selfish by being concerned about themselves and not wanting the best for the colonists. If the colonists were to be under Spanish control or get their goods from somewhere else, the British would not be able to tax them, losing money. In addition, “Although some members of the British government may have had a sincere desire to protect the land rights of Native Americans, their main intention was to avoid more Indian wars and their cost” (Riggs). This is another example of British being selfish. They made the Indians move out and travel across the Appalachian Mountains just so they could save money. The Proclamation of 1763 showed that the British cared only about themselves and

The War Hawks loved America and the ideas of growing and becoming big and a great Nation. They wanted to conquer Canada and move out west. These Congressmen thought that conquering Canada would of been an easy task especially since we helped them get out of the grasp of England. Kicking the Indians out of our Territory was also something Congress wanted to do. Congress pushed for this excessively. Before the Battle of Tippecanoe, There we take about Americans in the Indian Territories in different newspapers.“The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because they had it first. It is their . They may sell it, …” (Doc. A). Americans were already pushing to western Expansion and trying to take land that is for the Indians. This lead to the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Even after this, Congress continued to try to get land. New Englanders were getting frustrated wondering questions like, Why are we talking about Canada? Why do we need more land even after the purchase of Louisiana?, and Why aren’t we trying to get control of

During an Indian speech given by Captain Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut, the Chief gives his insight on the war between who he addresses the Massachusetts Congress as “Brothers” and Old England. In the Chief’s speech, he takes notice in the feud between the two countries and addresses them both as friends, and neither as a threat or biased foe. In The Chief’s speech, Solomon says, “If I find they are against you, I will try to turn their minds. I think they will listen to me.” Captain Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut speaks of Old england as the average friend to himself, without any tone of threat or disgust to throw off the Congress.

American colonists and the Native Americans of North America have had challenges getting along with each other ever since they encountered early in the 17th century. During the American Revolutionary war they were allies but once the white settlers gained freedom, they started to seek more land, which happened to be the land Native Americans occupied. After a long ferocious thirty year war, President Andrew Jackson issued The first annual address to congress, this article fulfills Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, contains bias and assertion which marginalize and silence the voice of Native Americans.

His perspective was that if the colonists won, they would have to leave. In the same thought, According to Indians.org, “The Mohawk Indian chief Joseph Brant served as a spokesman for his people, a Christian missionary of the Anglican church, and a British military officer during the U.S. War of Independence. He is remembered for his efforts in unifying upper New York Indian tribes and leading them in terrorizing raids against patriot communities in support of Great Britain's efforts to repress the rebellion.” So him being a spokesperson meant he could be a messenger. He could send the news about the British and if they have won the debate whether or not the Indians could keep their land. Also, he was able to share the perspectives of the other people with the British to persuade them into trying harder. For example, if one Indian loves his home so much that he would die in it, then Brant would be able to tell the British that they don’t want to leave. Then they would feel bad for them since most Indians fought with them. On the same token though, the colonists wouldn’t have liked it though, but just goes to say how mildly cruel they were to them. Especially since some Indians fought with them. So, from Brant’s role in society, they started debate. From the website HistoryWiz.com, “In 1783, under the terms of the Peace of Paris, without regard to its Indian allies, Britain handed over to the new United

In Letter from Governor Edmund Ross of New Mexico to President Grover Cleveland, Governor Edmund Ross wrote to President Grover Cleveland regarding the white residents’ reactions towards Geronimo’s escape from military custody and Ross’ attempt to further convince the government to rid and even potentially kill off some of the American Indian tribes surrounding their settlements. Despite their small number, which was a population of “less than five hundred”[ Kent McGaughy, American Perspectives: Readings in American History, Volume 2 (New York City: Pearson Education, Inc., 2015), Page 80] people, the white settlers felt uneasy about the fact that they lived in such close proximities to them. They believed that if some of the tribes (particularly, the Chiricahua and the Warm Springs bands of the Apaches group) were removed, they would feel safer. Moreover, they believed that the tribe’s removal would have a positive and tranquil impact on the settlers’ territories and industries as they believed the American Indians’ “constant war with the white race”[ McGaughy, Page 80] hindered their way of life.

The war unveiled weakness and unpreparedness on the part of the English. Due to this unpreparedness the colonists suffered greatly. The colonists in the Ohio Valley in particular were subjected to raids by Indian tribes whom were allied with the French. In 1757 things got even worse for the colonists due to the English secretary of state William Pitt, who considered himself a colonist sympathizer, decided to start a practice called “impressment”, which allowed British commanders to enlist colonists by force. More unjust actions under William Pitt included seizing supplies and forcing colonists to allow British troops to stay in colonists’ homes without compensation. The American colonists deeply resented these practices and even rioted in New York city that same year which threatened to end England’s war with France. Realizing some of his mistakes, William Pitt loosened his grip on the American colonies by reimbursing them for supplies used by the army as well as returning military recruitment control to the colonists. As the war ended, this proved to be a pivotal moment for the colonists and the English. The English were angry that the American colonists invested so little in a war that was for the colonists benefit. The American colonists felt that this conflict between the English and French confirmed as to why the English had no business involving themselves in colonial

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.

The relationship between the British and the colonist was destroyed after the war. The British did not see the colonist as one of them, but the colonist did. The Treaty of Paris restricted the colonist from taking land from the Indians. After the war the colonist wanted to move west of the Appalachian Mountain, the British rejected their request. The Proclamation Line of 1763 forbid them from moving to the land.

The United States expanded and strengthened its control over the North American territory because the militia was always fighting with the Indian over land. Expansion was a must seeing as there were thousands of people yearly still trying to settle in the new world, with that being said the Indians were always ready to defend and protect their land. Sadly because of the fight for land there was either Indians or Americans dying. In the long wrong the United States military won and settlers would quickly take over the land. The Indians had no chance in beating guns. In the political aspect George Washington's Farewell Address warned about the dangers of divisive political parties and foreign alliances, European conflict and tensions with Britain