The American Of The United States And Great Britain

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

While they had no official ally, they accepted bribes from both sides and profited. Additionally, in this first section of the chapter, the author informs the reader that Patriots took utilized Indian raids as propaganda opportunities to urge colonial unity. Even if the raids were carried out without British assistance, clever authors spun the stories to blame the mother country for the deaths of innocent Americans. By 1777, the British recognized that allying with the Natives was in their best interests and encouraged all tribes to raid Patriot settlements. The southern Indian nations hesitated, due to the recent defeat of the Cherokee in Georgia, but most of the northern nations agreed. Most Native American leaders thought the British would win the war and maintain trade relations with them. Additionally, the Indians wanted to regain the land they had lost to the colonists. Other Indians, however, saw the British as “the lesser of two evils”. Taylor writes that some saw the manipulative tendencies of the British and the fact that their strategies endangered Natives more than their own

While speaking in front of the Osages, Tecumseh begs for the Native Americans to unify themselves against the white men as they expand westward, killing their people. He states that if they do not come together, they stand no chance against the colonists, his words being: “Brothers - If you do not unite with us, they will first destroy us; they wish to make us enemies, that they may sweep over and desolate our hunting grounds, like devastating winds, or rushing waters.” This would have been very alarming to me if I were a Native American listening to the speech being given, knowing that my people and I were in actual danger of such heinous things as murder or even genocide.

Tecumseh’s biggest concerns were that his people would not live according to the Prophet which was casting off all elements of the Euro-American society. He believed that his people would turn to alcohol, firearms, and trade goods set out by English ways, which was what the Prophet said, would be detrimental to their ways. No matter what, Tecumseh was going to make sure the Indian way of life would continue forever. He led a revolution of young men who thought the leadership structure needed to be looked over again in order to survive. They fought to make sure The Indians East of the Mississippi to keep control over their home land. Tecumseh tried to visit neighboring tribes to form an alliance to protect the lands held by the Natives. He was successful in the way the Southern tribes would accept the alliance, but unsuccessful with others when some refused to join the reliance, such as the Iroquois tribe.

Tecumseh attempted to ally with many tribes, but did not have much success. Tecumseh has read many treaties, but he never signed one (Greenspan). He also made treaties and messages to tribes and governor Harrison. Tecumseh spoke to the Alabama creek Indians and allied with them (Tucker). Many tribes that he tried to join rejected him (Tucker). He allied with the British and pro British Indians to fight the Americans (Fixico). More than two dozen native nations participated

Tecumseh was a Shawnee Indian chief who had been born around 1768 near Springfield, Ohio. During the early 1800s, he started to oppose the United States, and attempted to create a confederation of Indian Tribes to rebel against the United States. One of the main reasons Tecumseh opposed the United States was the fact that white people were squatting on Native American land, and was forcing his people out. Although Tecumseh opposed whites, he knew how to speak their language. Tecumseh was described as a six-foot tall man with “fine” features. He had been rumored to be fluent in English, and most surprisingly, also in French. He also managed to turn his brother’s religious teachings into political movements in order to get his fellow Native Americans to support his movement. [Collins, pg 36-40]

Tecumseh’s father was very important in his life because his father was killed at the Battle of Port Pleasant during the French and Indian War which sparked his mom, Methoataske, leaving her children. Not only depressed from  her husband's death, but frightened by the impending American Revolution, she left her children with Tecumseh’s elder married sister,Tecumpease, and elder brother Chicksika. They moved to the Sha*-wnee tribe, where Chicksika had taught Tecumseh to be a hunter and warrior. When Chicksika was killed in an unsuccessful attack in Tennessee Tecumseh continued raiding white settlements till he finally returned home in 1790.

After the Barbary wars were over in 1806, American sailors were often under threat of being impressed by the British men of war to support their navy during the Napoleonic Wars. This caused much outrage throughout all of America. Another cause of increased tensions was the increased frequency of conflicts between the white settlers in western lands with the Native Americans. Many of the indians would go to British Canada or Spanish Florida to seek assistance in fighting against the Americans. The British were especially happy to assist inirectly at the very least. The convergence of many of the indian tribes under Tecumseh united the Americans in the northern and southern frontiers into a group known as the War Hawks that were unified in defense of their values and the western expansion of the United States. It was at this point that the idea of

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa leaders of the American Indian involvement together helped create a powerful organization among native Indians. Tecumseh, a powerful political and military leader is the most recognized of the two, but it was the combining of their knowledge that made them particularly powerful. Tenskwatawa provided a helpful vision to launch a much broader Indian movement, he used traditional native beliefs while combining religion to call for an Indian resistance against the Americans. He was able to unify the American Indians by turning his life around, which in turn he used his religion to gather many Indians, his faith helped him restore peace within the Indian community. Tecumseh unified the native Indians by using political and military strategies to convince the native people of what he was trying to accomplish with his movement. His energy helped natives by giving them someone with a voice. Tecumseh never compromised, which made him the powerful leader that he was.

In a private letter to Governor of the Indiana Territory William Harrison in February 1803, Jefferson outlines a plan to make the Indians dependent on farming by decreasing their ability to find game, and eventually making them in debt through trading, thus forcing them to sell their lands to pay debts, and lose their history and way of life. He also tells Harrison of plans for expansion to the west by purchase, taking unclaimed land, or driving Indians elsewhere if they should become violent or stubborn.

The Shawnee chief Tecumseh a well-known Indian, became famous for his attempt to merge the Native American tribes against the Americans. In 1809 he began his voyage in order to profess his requests. A few years later Tecumseh arrived in the Osage Nation around the region of Oklahoma and tried to influence the Osage Nation with his political agenda. Tecumseh had wanted the Osage Nation to join the pan-Indian confederacy. Jointly with other unique tribes and the military aid of the British troops. Tecumseh the Shawnee chief called upon the Osages to start or commence war against the Americans. The speech Tecumseh presents gives evidence of his political standing.

The Scratch of a Pen by Colin Calloway helps further our understanding of what was happening during and after the Treaty of Paris. He explains all of the empires in the nation and how they changed throughout the Seven Years War and leading to the Revolution. While many historians focus on the Anglo- centric perspective of America, Calloway makes sure to stray from this. By focusing on all of the groups in America he is able to integrate them to show just how complicated the Treaty’s effects were. Calloway also shows these affects as the led up to the Revolution in the 1770s.

One way the Indians demonstrated their resistance to changing in the ways of the white man was at the Battle of Little

Tecumsen and Tenskwatawa – Calling for a return to traditional Native American practices, these brothers created a powerful pan-indian military movement and eventually allied with the British in order to stop Anglo-American expansion

In the late half of the eighteenth century, the colonies of British North America were at a point in which they wanted more of their own identity and separation from Europe. Some of the colonists felt that way and others were quite content in continuing to live under Britain’s iron fist of legislation that they were imposing on the colonies. After the Seven Years War and the Proclamation Line of 1763, many colonists were outraged and began to display their emotions. The colonist protested through numerous tactics such as demonstrations of hate crimes towards the Native Americans living in the colonies. There were also some colonists that made their opinion heard that the colonies should succeed from the British Empire and be a new nation, and with any debatable topic like leaving the British Empire, there were those colonial loyalists that denounced the patriot idea of succession. Often in power battles, the third parties are rarely heard as well, however to see through eyes of a African American being transported through the Atlantic Trading System and to hear his story puts the graphic nature of that journey into perspective. The decades leading up to and including the starting point of the American Revolution would help tip the colonies to where they would begin their path to becoming the United States of America,