The Role Of The Native American Indians

The French and Indian War had an almost innumerable number of effects on the political, economic and ideological relations between Britain and the American colonies. The war touched the entirety of America’s diverse population; from the Native Americans to the soldiers. Some were gladdened by the invigorated ties to England while others were enraged by the economic situation. There is no doubt that the war truly altered and revolutionized the American colonies.

During the time that the war went on the Natives began to disregard the French. That it gave the British an advantage. Next The French and Indian War the English colonists in North America no longer required help from the British against the French. By the time the war broke out France had gained control of most eastern Canada. The French and Indian War was part of a worldwide contest for empire between Britain, France, Spain and other European nations, known as the Seven Years’ War.

Have you ever heard or read anything about the role of elders in the Native Americans tribes? probably not, because that function did not exist. In these tribes around the 18th and 19th centuries, instead of considering them a source of wisdom, they thought that people who reached a certain age were wasteful, had no rights and were not considered persons. They were considered a serious obstacle and a danger to the tribe, to have members in their third age. Most were expelled from the tribe to die. Others did not change camp, but each had his way.

Since the arrival of the Europeans in 1492 the Native American has systematically been dehumanized, decivilized and redefined into terms that typify a subordinate or minority role, restricted life opportunities persist today as a result.

The fascination with Native Americans has been a constant with outsiders since explorers first “discovered” the New World. The biggest surge in this fascination came in the mid-19th century when the Indian Wars were starting to come to an end and the belief that Native Americans were disappearing, walking into the sunset never to be seen again. This led to an increase in the collecting of anything Native American, from artifacts to stories to portraits. The inevitable outcome of this was that Native Americans, who were never considered very highly to begin with, where now moved into a category of scientific interest to be study. This scientific interest in Native Americans is what many museums and other institutions based their collections and exhibits on and is one of the issues that many Native Americans have with how both their people and their culture were, and to some extent still are, represented in these places.

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

The Seven Years’ War, also known as the French and Indian War in the colonies, was the beginning of outward conflict between the British and French over North American colonies. Most Europeans viewed the Indians as a means to get something they wanted; they were pawns during this struggle in North America. During the 18th century, there were many alliances and discord among the Indians and the Europeans. The demise of many alliances was the lack of trust and suspicions of betrayal. The Europeans were a dominating force in the French and Indian War affecting aspects of territory, trade, and government in North America.

THESIS STATEMENT: The Native Americans were historically doomed because of the Europeans inability to accept elements of Native American culture that they felt were savage, the natives inability to acknowledge the Europeans threat to their lifestyle and land, and the far superior European army used to defeat Indian tribes.

In order for both the English and the French to be successful in their wars, it was important for them to have the support of the First Nations because of the strength that the population had. Therefore, the Europeans would bribe the Native Americans, often through trade deals, so it benefited the Aboriginals to keep the tensions high between the two groups. At some points in the 18th century, the most Natives were on the French side of the conflict, which is why the Seven Years War was also known as the French-Indian war, as they came together to fight the British. However, near the end of the war, Britain gained favor from the Iroquois’ after the British proved they could obtain victories without the support on the Native Americans, thus showing their strength.

The French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) had a great impact on the course of North American history. In the 1750s, Britain and France had colonies in North America. The war started due to a fight over land; British colonists wanted to expand west passed the Ohio River Valley. The land was originally taken over the French, however the British wanted to extend into the North America interior because this benefitted them with British imports and trading. Not only was the war fought in America but in Europe, the West Indies, the Philippines, and Africa. Due to the vast locations of conflict, many consider this war to be the “first world war”.

The Native Americans that were allied to defeat the French were dissatisfied with the new upstarts and the policies for the conquered people. Some of the tribes that were involved had units with different political agenda’s. The policies that were created were set by British General Jeffery Amherst. The British and Native Americans had traded and intermarried with their French allies but this further aggravated the situation. When the war began the Native Americans attacked a large number of British Forts and

The war was fought between the British and The French, as I stated, but it wasn’t just them, local native americans helped the two colonists. “What tribes helped these two?” You might ask, well, the British colonists were helped by the Iroquois Indians, and The French were helped by the Hurons

The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles include strict rules and guidelines for each person to follow or you could get in trouble and have to follow the rules of the consequences. The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles consisted of each person in the house and or tribe, a job and were responsible to fulfill the needs of the job, because of their strictness they had to follow very intricate guidelines that most thought would be to strict but then have grown to obey each and every rule to its fullest. Due to the importance of their jobs and or roles and they quite often study ,their roles should be a large section related to the roles they follow deeply in. The roles they follow even though are strict if something happens

When the French enter North America in the 16th century, it irreversibly changed the lives of the native people that inhabited it. The most drastic transformation was on the Native Americans of the Midwest, who came to be key parts of the French’s entire colonial strategy. Most tribes’ everyday lives became completely different as they had to adapt to the ways of the new occupants around them. The most major aspects that came to be affected were gender roles within the tribes, and a newfound sense of constant warfare and alliances that were formed not only between different tribes but also between tribes and the French themselves.

Much of the action of the Seven Years’ War played out in Europe where its main actors resided, but action did spill out in their colonies and in the United States the action that did happen in North America was called the French and Indian War. In 1757 the war had been going on for three years. Much of the conflict was between Britain and France, who of course held bordering lands in North America, and Spain, who also held lands in North America, allied itself with France. In this time period, North America was influenced by multiple European powers and each of those powers had different attitudes towards Native Americans and those different attitudes led to different relationships with and different treatments of Native Americans. The French held close relationships with different Native American tribes. French success in their colonies, much of what today is the middle of the United States, and most of what is today is Canada, which this paper will focus more on, depended on forming alliances with Native Americans, both trade alliances and military alliances. As seen in “An Unpleasant Transaction on this Frontier” by Susan Sleeper-Smith, it was not uncommon to see communities, with focus in the Great Lakes region, that were multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, consisting of families of white