Northwest Indian War

in freezing waters. In the rain, the troops sung to keep high hopes and when they were close enough to the village, Clark had to post a riflemen at the rear to encourage the tired individuals (Davis 98). Their ambitions rose when they captured an Indian hunting canoe carrying buffalo meat, corn, tallow, and kettles. After devouring their finds, the unit made it the final miles within eyesight of Fort Sackville on February 23(Davis 99). The Kentuckian Major promptly entered the village and took

Native Americans sided with the Americans during the revolution, tribes in the Old Northwest refused to recognize the Americans as victorious. In 1783, the British informed the Shawnee, Delaware, Chickasaw, Creek, and other tribes that they had ceded the land south of the Great Lakes, but the Americans would respect the Ohio River as the boundary with the Indians. The Treaty of Paris guaranteed nothing to the Indians. Most of these tribes had sided with the British. Native Americans, finding themselves

The United States was weak and poor after the Revolutionary War and this vital land was their only hope for success (Calloway). Unfortunately, this land was still home to many Native American tribes. The Native Americans that called this land home thought that the new settlers were coming in and taking over their

what they were told. In fact, some Indians, surprisingly helped many English settlers. Which brought different conflicts between their own people, because some choose to believe the settlers were their friends. Consequently, we can say most conflicts between European settlers in America and Native Americans were about land. The Indians used large amounts of land to survive and the Europeans wanted it. In many cases, Europeans simply took what they wanted. The Indians were taken advantage of by the settlers

dealt with constant warfare and dislocation from foreign forces. First being dragged into the French and Indian conflict, and having to deal with the repercussions of the French losing the war against the British, then the British losing against the Americans, which would create an influx of American settlers to the “western country”. In the book Shawnee!: The Ceremonialism of a Native Indian Tribe and Its Cultural Background by Howard James he discusses the role the Shawnees played during the

The French and Indian War, fought between 1754 and 1763, is arguably the beginning of the road to American independence. Before 1754 the British controlled thier colonies through a system called salutary neglect, where Britain controlled the colonies but did not govern them strictly. During the war the colonists didn’t want to help the British forces, nor help pay off war debts. Instances such as Shays’ Rebellion called for more British protection and therefore more debts, all of which made

evangelize the Indians. The letters the Jesuit fathers sent back to Quebec and France provide the most detailed written descriptions of the lives of Wisconsin Indians in the 1600s. 1672 – Father Allouez and Father Louis Andre built St. Francois Xavier mission near present-day De Pere. 1673 – Fur trader Louis Jolliet, Jesuit priest Father Jacques

Revolutionary War, Great Britain ceded all the land to the Mississippi River to our new nation at the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. But it was land still controlled by a confederation of Indian Tribes, and it still contained British forts to support their Indian allies. It was the Treaty of Greenville that finally ended that control. To be sure, there were still isolated raids from scattered Indian groups that still remained but no major hostilities in the region until Tecumseh's War and the

The French and Indian war, also known as the “Seven Years’ War,” altered many relations between the British and the American colonies due to the colonies having more political tasks and republicanism, economically through British taxation, and the colonists wanted independence ideologically. Before 1754, North America consisted mainly of three large territories: the Spanish, the English, and the French. The Spanish was in control of the southwestern part of North America, the English was in control

The French and India war was a war that took place in today’s Pittsburgh. The war was both caused by the English and French. The English and the French both felt that they were entitled to land and each was to willing to fight and they were also, willing to go into war so they could prove that they owned the land. (odellreads.com) The French and India war started out as a dispute over land in the Ohio River Valley area, both the French and English settlers moved towards colonization of that area