1. Although Indians played a large part in assisting Americans find/ inhabit new land, many were not treated with peace and respect…
Native Americans had been all throughout the United States in early history, keeping to themselves living their lives. Americans believed the Indians to be savage and not worth the life they lived and some thought they should be exterminated, however, there were those who had compassion that believed that the Indians should be converted to Christianity and then everything would be fine (23). Native Americans showed as much willingness as white people to participate in the market economy (48). The Indians figured out different ways to communicate with the whites so that they would be able to trade and barter with them effectively (27).…
In the very first colonies Christopher Columbus discovered, he took the very first native American’s prisoner and wrote in his journal how easily he could conquer and enslave all of them. Christopher Columbus was consumed with finding gold and valuables to repay those who helped him fund his voyage. Due to Christopher Columbus obsession and superiority complex, Christopher Columbus didn’t see any problem with treating the indigenous people poorly because they were just a means to his end of helping him reach his…
Native Indians were described by many colonists as, “[churlish]”, and … “dignified”, (Kupperman, 1977, p.263). Kupperman’s purpose for initiating the article with the colonists’ views was…
The Presidential Election of 1986 between the Republican William McKinley and Democrat William Jennings Bryan, is thought to be one of the most impressive and complicated presidential elections in all of American History. One of the major highlights of the election was William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech that sparked the people’s interest for the Democratic representative. This speech not only had a firm and well defined meaning, but its delivery was also delivered superbly. The speech itself was concerned with many problems, such as growing class divisions that later were the cause of many violent outbursts among the people. Money was the most prominent concern for the people in 1896 because of high employment rates and the fact that they were recovering from a few years of depression. The…
When English colonists first arrived to the New World, the Native American Indians were curious yet kind to these “white men”. However, as time passed the colonists’ hunger for more land grew stronger. They began to take advantage of the Indians by signing treaties that were not completely understood by the natives. Consequently, a brave Indian took upon the initiative to protect their properties. Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee, began his quest to put a stop to American greed by uniting the molested tribes to defend their lands.…
My impression of Red Jackets speech is that he wanted peace for everyone, equality, acceptance, and respect. He respectfully disagreed with his brothers religion but also told him that "The Great Spirit" gave everyone a religion they can believe in, that there wasn't one true religion technically. Also, he wanted to help the natives get there land and make peace with the whites, he accepted their religion as well, doesn't mean he believed in it, but he tolerated it. He wanted to get along with the whites, he was humble, and being humble was a sign that he wanted equality between the natives and the whites. The part of the Iroquois Constitution that surprises me is that they ahd a Tree of Peace that represented a lot of things. It's not common…
Unfortunately, despite how precisely Indians followed white men’s laws and requirements, the Indian Removal would have eventually transpired. The Five Civilized Tribes shed their Indian traditions and culture to take on the Americans way of life. Indians not only adopted principles in government and agriculture, but also religiously. Despite all of this, whites still wanted to kick Indians out of their lands in order to bring profit to themselves. Even the national government could not terminate the Indian Removal. Through both the United States Constitution and Worcester v. Georgia, the national government declared that states could not operate the removal of Indians. All of this, illustrates the inhumanity and lack of compassion whites had…
The Civil War, a war fought during the 1860s, decided a great many things: slavery or freedom, south and north or unification. In the beginning of the war, the Northern African Americans were not allowed to join the Union Army and fight against the Southern oppressors. Alfred M. Green, while giving a speech in Philadelphia at the beginning of the war, urged African American to prepare to enlist. He also spoke subversively about the unfairness of the treatment of African Americans not only in the South but also in the North. Green uses a variety of methods to persuade his fellow African-Americans to prepare for war while also speaking out against the treatment of the African-Am. in the North.…
They don’t consider the Indians as people they only take advantage of them, they see them like nothing. The British promise the Indians to heal all their scarfs to kill every single colonist who want to settle in their land and fill the rivers up with their blood. The English brought light to the Indians who were living in darkness thanks to the first Europeans who wanted to settle in America and just wants to disposed them away from their territory and treat them like slaves.…
Early English settlers viewed the native populations as little more than savages and a primitive people that were inferior to them. The English believed that, since they were an inferior people, their land could be taken and claimed for the English so that they could continue to expand and settle new areas and mire towns and villages. In this Essay I aim to Explain the views of the colonists about the native populations as well as the views of the Natives about the new colonists.…
Red Cloud's speech was directed towards all white people who were taking the Sioux Nation’s land and to the United States government. In his speech he asked for help from the whites to bring peace and put an end to the hostility between the Native Americans and the white people. Red Cloud was the chief of one of the Sioux tribes. He asked for help and informed all of the white people that Native Americans were the same as the whites. He told them that the Native Americans wanted peace and were only trying to make a living. The Americans had given the Native American, many promises about giving them land, bringing them horses in return for their ponies and as well learning how making a living for themselves, but none of those promises were kept. The Native American’s had done nothing but keep their word to the Americans and let them pass through their land for fifty-five with no harm. In return, their leader was taken away by the troops.…
The Message to Congress from the Chickasaw Chiefs, July 1783 talks about the Indians just wanting to be friends and being hopeful for the future, and in The united Indian Nations, Speech at the Confederate Council, 1786, it says that the Indians were disappointed in the fact that the British treated the Indians badly and that the Indians expected more kindness and friendship from the British. When settlers first came here, they were kinder to the Natives, and once they weren’t dependent of the Indians for learning the cultivation of food, they treated them awfully. I think that never really changed. They were always driven out of places because of the greed of the British. The colonists wanted the Tories to go back to England because they felt like the Loyalists were trying to make the colonies the same as England, which the colonists wanted to get away from. They figured that if the Loyalists loved England so much, why didn’t they just go…
Our modern day society is driven by wants versus needs. Many people feel a sense of entitlement to things whether they have earned them or not. Franklin describes the Indians as hunters and warriors, living off the land and taking only what they needed. They learned from each other. They listened to each other and gave someone speaking the full attention deserved. “Having few artificial wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation” (Franklin, 2008, p. 226). The Indians did not possess the materialistic nature of the white man. They welcomed a stranger into their community, fed and clothed him, offered him a place to sleep and expected nothing in return but fellowship. The colonists would not have offered the same hospitality to an Indian that appeared as a stranger at their door. In trying to convert the Indians to Christianity, the colonists explained their church services as meeting “to hear and learn good things” (Franklin, 2008, p. 229) but upon hearing the Indians explain something from their beliefs, the colonists passed it off as “mere fable, fiction, and falsehood” (Franklin, 2008, p. 228).…
At the start of the seventeenth century, Native Americans greeted European settlers with much excitement. They regarded settlers as strange, but were interested to learn about the new tools and weapons Europeans brought with them. The native people were more than accommodating to the settlers, but as time passed, Europeans took advantage of their generosity. “Once these newcomers disembarked and began to feel their way across the continent, they forever altered the course and pace of native development.” Native Americans and Europeans faced many conflicts due to their vast differences in language, religion and culture. European settlers’ inability to understand and respect Native Americans lead to many struggles that would eventually erupt into violent warfare.…