What Is Pontiac's View Of Freedom

The event contradicts both the American ideology and creed in terms of equality and freedom. The massacre was a result of treating Pequot Indians as inferiors, not equals. In terms of freedom, although got freedom by escaping religious persecution in England, they persecuted those who did not move to prayer towns.

Gary Nash also brought forth the objections of two groups that were under the subjection of colonial mistreatment. Native Americans and Slaves acted in attempts to liberate themselves throughout the American Revolution. Though their enemy was not the British, but rather the colonists that exploited them. Native Americans and African slaves were also directly involved in the Revolutionary War by aiding the British in attempts to dominate colonists. Nash concludes that these two forces alone were not only capable of making

be treated as equals, so he demanded rights for Indians. Land holdings were controlled by a

The Cherokee people were forced out of their land because of the settler’s greed for everything and anything the land had to offer. Many Cherokee even embraced the “civilization program,” abandoning their own beliefs so that they may be accepted by white settlers. Unfortunately for the Cherokee though, the settlers would never accept them as an equal citizen. A quote from historian Richard White says it very well, “The Cherokee are probably the most tragic instance of what could have succeeded in American Indian policy and didn’t. All these things that Americans would proudly see as the hallmarks of civilization are going to the West by Indian people. They do everything they were asked except one thing. What the Cherokees ultimately

The Indians were well adapted to the land, therefore they were able to use swamps to their advantage and also use the same swamp to the colonist’s disadvantage. Indians who frequently migrated and had no special meaning for their personal equity, never placed an identity to it. Unlike the Indians, the colonists believed their property was meaningful. Lepore explains that religion contributed a major part to the colonist idea of their own, “the colonists’ sense of predestination…, their natural affinity with the land, and their cultural proclivity to conflate property with identity, all combined to produce this oneness of bodies and mind.” The colonist viewed the Indians as savages due to the misunderstanding values of land, property, and equity. In addition, the colonists, who were mostly Puritans believed the war was God punishing them for the failure of the colonists to convert the Indians to Christianity. On the other hand, the Indians had other spiritual faith that collides with the colonist religious

Chapter 7 of Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions begins by describing the tense state of affairs between American Patriots and Native Indians in 1775. Both sides feared the other and were determined not to let their enemy defeat them. The Patriots were angry with the British for seeking alliance with the Indians, compromising their “racial solidarity”, in order to gain a military advantage. The Natives believed that American independence would be the catalyst for their downfall into slavery and landlessness. The author moves on to say that this was not the case with all tribes. For example, weak bands of Indians in the Carolinas allied with Patriots and fought in their army in hopes for protection after the war. However, the reality was that

The Proclamation of 1763 began a growing resentment for basically the same reason they were upset towards the Indians. In the Transcript of the Proclamation of 1763, it states, ” And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands within the Countries above described, or upon any other Lands, which, not having been ceded to, or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements.”(King George III, 1763) If I was a colonist and I read this I would be like, “you are not my mom. I get your my King and have almost complete control over me, but you are not my mom and can’t tell me what to do.”, but then I would follow him in fear that I would get in trouble and be killed. King George III also writes. “And We do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under Our Sovereignty, Protection, and Dominion, for the Use of the said Indians...We do hereby strictly forbid, on Pain of Our Displeasure, all Our loving Subjects from making any Purchases or Settlements whatever, or taking Possession of any of the Lands above reserved, without Our especial Leave and License for that Purpose first obtained.”(King George III,1763) The Colonists were probably mad for the same reason as they were upset. It’s kind of like the King saying, it’s our pleasure, like a mom saying to an aunt that their kid didn’t want to come over, to give this land. Also “Our loving Subjects” is also like a mom getting on to their kid being like “my Wonderful daughter”, but in code saying “you better behave”. But it wasn’t their pleasure and they were just saying that to get on the Indians good side, and the colonists knew that so they were getting more and more upset, until they eventually rebelled. The growing resentment between them started when this Proclamation was written and the colonists got so fed up that they eventually rebelled.

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

In order to protect their lands the Indians needed to have a good relationship both with the British and the French. Both relations were very different, they preferred the relation with the French side.

The Proclamation of 1763 also established that the land reserved for the Indians was still owned by the British but the Indians would govern it. Britain did not actually mean to give this land to the Indians ever completely, but knew it would take

His belief was that the tribes were independent nations that should be recognized and respected. He felt that the United States government had a moral obligation to protect the Cherokee and other tribes' land and their future, because he knew it would be a better outlook for both the citizens and for the country as a whole in the years to come.

Great Britain did not strictly govern the English colonies so they traded and developed their own independent governments without any interference. The colonies were left in salutary neglect and it wasn’t until after the French and Indian war that the way the colonies were governed changed. After the French and Indian war, the Native Americans were dissatisfied with the treatment from the British officials and they organized Pontiac’s Rebellion. Because of this, King George decided to pass the Proclamation of 1763, which forbade all settlements past a line drawn among the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were upset because the law prevented from settling in the Ohio Valley and some already had land in the area, but could not return to

On the other hand, Native Americans decided to fight on the side of the British because they taught it might mean a victory in expansion. Similarly, there were Native Americans fought on the American side as well because they wanted to help the Americans at the Battles of Fort George and Chippewa (Fixico, para. 2). According to Fixico, There were Indians who sided with the Americans -- Red Jacket and Farmer’s Brother led a Seneca faction to help the Americans at the Battles of Fort George and Chippewa. But most Indian nations sided with the British against the U.S, believing that a British victory might mean an end to expansion. Although the Americans went to war with the British because the Americans thought that the British were being unfair because they were unfairly taxing the Americans to pay of their debts and the Americans just wanted freedom, the Native Americans and the Americans fought because the Natives thought

treated the Indians poorly, and it overall helped out the government. The first argument was about the Indians claiming the land before the U.S. which shows they can stay wherever they want. Next, the U.S. treated the Indian tribes poorly. This shows that the Indian tribes have reasons for doing what they did. Last of all, it affected the U.S. government in a positive way. This is because the Cherokee that stayed and followed Georgia law, helped fight in the war. We have to protect our enemies if it means that our government could be

When war was declared in seventeen hundred fifty six, a bonus was offered by the governor of Pennsylvania for Indian scalps. Not much came of it at that time but when the Pontiac War began in seventeen hundred sixty three, a letter written by John Elder, a Presbyterian minister “found that his neighborhood had no appetite for fighting Indians”. (163) The scalp bounty was increased and it brought a flood of