In the time period of 1800-1850 white Americans expanded across the vast lands on the western side of the continent and regularly encountered conflict with various Indian nations. In these documents, interactions for the various Indian nations were subjected to different cultivation between each tribe per say that there were responses that filled different needs and demands. Some tribes provided benefits such as agriculture and household manufacture and produced the idea that settlements to be blended and conform into one people. Other interactions created conflict because some of our land purchases were not 100% in compliance with the constitution. Yet some Indian nations were highly influenced by leaders such as Tecumseh for which they understood his implied meanings with obedience and respect. These primary sources of information give a great insight to the goals of the whites and their encounters…
During the 1676, Jamestown Virginia was under the diplomacy where taxes, budgets, land use, energy, infrastructures and common wealth turned into a public issues. Within this time the Native Indians were locals who shared certain lands in Virginia and made a compromise with the current governor, William Berkeley at the time, a treaty determining who owned which land possession. Failed to keep his words, Berkeley caused an overflow of the British Colony upon the Native Indians colony and in return they fought back for their land. A frontier named Nathaniel Bacon intervene through popularity and wealth and stir up a rebellion we know today as the Bacon’s Rebellion. Bacon’s Rebellion had an ill-fated effect on both the British colony and the Native…
The Red King's Rebellion fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Before the conflict ended, over 9,000 people were dead (two-thirds of them Native Americans), and homelessness, starvation, and economic hardship plagued the descendants of both races for generations to come. In this fascinating book, Russell Bourne examines the epic struggle from both sides, seeking to explain how the biracial harmony that once reigned--when the Plymouth Colony's neighboring Wampanoag’s, under the stately Massasoit (King…
1. How did the Native Americans occupy the land? What did they do to take possession and mark ownership?…
Chapter one shows how different cultures took advantage of not only African Americans, but Native Americans as well. Native Americans were invaded by Spanish settlers, taken into slavery and forced to live with harsh living conditions. Settlers exposed them to a vast number of diseases, and tricked other Native Americans into agreements, in which they were starved, made to live in the cold, and which ultimately led to the death of many of them. Native Americans were resistant to being overtaken and fought back to protect their people and their land. Spanish conquerors like Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sent out to find laborers. He landed off the coast of South Carolina in hopes of finding a location to start a colony. During his search, he found that Europeans practiced Christianity and did not believe in exploiting their people. A groups resisted, they looked to other…
In document 2 Canassatego, Chief of the Onondaga Nation of Iroquois Confederacy showed his outrage against the settlers moving into their lands and taking their resources. He is angered because his tribe and others were there first and the settlers feel entitled to this land even though it is not rightfully theirs. After the war settlers obviously dominated these areas regardless of Indian’s feelings, creating even more tension.…
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.…
The Color of the Land, written by David A. Chang, is an informative monograph about the nation, ethnicity, and politics of landownership. The book emphasizes the evolution of the Indians, African Americans, and the White people of Oklahoma. Chang organizes the book into three parts that collaborate very well to expose the hardships and tribulations of the people, their roles, relationships, leadership and ownership of land, racial nationalism, and removal.…
The Native American tribes in the Western frontier played a major role in the Virginia revolutionary movement. The elite Virginian gentry?s desire for Western Native American lands rapidly grew in the mid-eighteenth century. The wealthy Virginians made many attempts to attain these lands and the Native Americans resisted hard to defend what their land. Furthermore, the British government was more accommodating to the Natives than the Virginians wished. Parliament was careful not to incense native tribes for fear of a costly war or rebellion. A British official exclaimed that Indian rebellions (specifically Pontiac?s Rebellion) were ?expensive and destructive to his Majesty?s Subjects.? For example, in October 1768, the British imposed the Treaty of Hard Labor, which resulted in the Cherokee Indians retaining land that Virginian Thomas Jefferson had claimed. Two more major British treaties enraged the Virginia land speculators. The treaty of Easton in 1758 decreed all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Indians. This treaty caused problems for many speculators and farming companies. However, the major calamity to the Virginian gentry was the Proclamation of 1763. Although the proclamation did little to stop settlers from…
The battle of little big horn took place on 25th June 1876. All 210 soldiers in General Custer’s force were killed by Indians led by sitting bull. The Battle began because the white settlers and the Native American’s lived in peace but the American’s started to abuse their trust with the Native American’s as they started to dig for gold, as the gold was discovered in the Rocky mountain and build train lines to get to the mountain. The us government then started to build more train lines and started to scar the buffalo away, the Native American’s needed the buffalo for food and many other items. The Native American’s than had enough of the White settlers destroying their land and traditional customs, Red cloud addressed the US government representative and announced “the great Father (US president) sends us presents and wants us to sell him the road, but the white chief comes with soldiers to steal it before we say yes or no. I will talk to you no more. I will go now and I will fight you”. In this essay I will try to explore the battle and whether the US defeat was because of General Custer.…
In 1850 and later on, several transcontinental railroads were built for easier transportation. The government also granted federal land for the laissez-faire ideologists for building the railroad (Doc. A). However, the process was slower than it’s planned. “More than 800 petitions were presents to Land Commission, and already 10 years of delays have elapsed and only some 50 patents have been granted” (Doc. B). The petitioners eventually have to sell their possessions little by little. Richest landholders ended up “living as objects of charity” (Doc. B). Red Cloud was also upset by the poor work of the government. He believed that “commissioners are sent out there to do nothing but to rob [us] and get the riches of this world away from us” (Doc. C). As the chief of Oglala Sioux, the Native American felt that the new American had come to kick them out of their lands and to steal their properties and possessions. In addition, Native American was suppressed by the colonists. “White man a teacher who tortured an ambitious Indian youth by frequently reminding the brave changeling that he was nothing but a “government pauper” (Doc.J). They lost trust and faith in the new government of the United States. Furthermore, the freight rates had done more injuries to the Western region than anything else. “The railroads have retarded its growth as they first hastened it” (Doc. I). F.B. Tracy…
I chose to write about the Alamo because I watched this movie when I was younger and wanted to watch it again now that I have a better perspective on the history that took place in the Battle for the Alamo. The movie takes place in San Antonio in early 1836, 6,000 Mexicans marched to The Alamo to fight a group of patriots of 187 strong; they were led by Colonel William B. Travis. During the 10 days of fighting, the Mexicans fought and fired their cannons until they were able to climb over the walls of The Alamo., to defeat the patriots. Among the dead were frontiersmen Davy Crockett and the Bowie brothers. This paper will explain how John Hancock interprets the history of the Alamo, along with the characterization of William B. Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie and finally the cinematography of the movie of the story of the Alamo.…
Waterhouse, Edward. ‘Edward Waterhouse, a British Official, Recounts an Indian Attack on Early Virginia Settlement, 1622’ Major Problems In American History Volume I: To 1877 (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012) 36…
Bacon’s Rebellion had been led by Nathaniel Bacon and had been a struggle to acquire improved land boundaries for those who owned land past the line declared to belong to the Native Americans. The governor at the time had feared the Natives greatly and promised them land they would not cross neglecting the fact free indentured servants owned land there and are susceptible to Native American attacks. Nathaniel Bacon had several reasons for starting the rebellion including the fact the he too owned land there, and he had personal conflicts with the governor, and his dissatisfaction with everything given to him. Consequences of Bacon’s rebellion had been the aggravation of a strong Native American tribe, the destruction of the city and loss of a governor, and the instability of a colony.…
Although often viewed as inferior, savage and helpless, many historians are starting to discover the intelligence and wisdom the Indians had and shared with the colonists that came to America so long ago. As the settlers slowly began to create a new world on the already inhabited North America, they were plagued with starvation due to a severe drought in the area. Due to the dry lands and the settlers expectations to “rely on Indians for food and tribute,” (Norton 17) they were disappointed to find that the Indians were not so keen to handing out food and help to the strangers that have just come onto their land and begun to settle in such a time of severe weather and starvation. As time goes on, both the Indians and the Englishmen realize they both have what the other needs; tools from the white men and crops, land and knowledge from the Indians. As a result, the chief of Tsenacomoco, Powhatan, and colonist, Captain John Smith on an ideally peaceful, mutualistic relationship to ensure the survival of both civilizations. This agreement will leave the groups in cahoots for 100 of years leading to some disastrous scenarios and betrayals.…