Canada, westward, or live in plantations created at their ancestral homes1. Conflict in Northwestern Territories was much more violent among nine different tribes allied with the Shawnee and Algonquin against American settlers. In 1791, the Indian tribes killed, captured, or wounded over 900 soldiers[7]. As the Indian war continued, the tribes faced outnumbering and there was a turn of the tides. In 1794, 3,000 troops defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Indians were forced to cede most of their land east of the Mississippi1. To prevent any more resistance from these tribes, the federal government implemented government chiefs, causing warriors to rebel against their own tribe. Rebellions within tribes caused social fragmentation, dependence on trade, alcoholism, and a military retaliation that the Americans eventually squandered1.
After all of these years of Indian oppression, some Americans hoped to see their improved treatment, but treatment of Native …show more content…
The government packaged the deal with a very sugar-coated description as it was an agreement offering Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River in exchange for current lands. This rhetoric implies that the Indians accepted to an agreement, in blunt terms, these tribes were being forcefully removed or they faced certain murder. Many tribal leaders understood the disgusting reality and they signed away their land. Between 1831 and 1837, Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks, Chickasaws, and most Cherokees traveled westward to their new homes in the Oklahoma territories. Some Cherokee tribes refused to relocate, and they were met with federal troops, who took them on a Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears had 15,000 Indians and one in four Cherokees along the way[9]. The Indian Removal was the worse mistreatment that the Natives incurred during this period of American
After all of these years of Indian oppression, some Americans hoped to see their improved treatment, but treatment of Native …show more content…
The government packaged the deal with a very sugar-coated description as it was an agreement offering Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River in exchange for current lands. This rhetoric implies that the Indians accepted to an agreement, in blunt terms, these tribes were being forcefully removed or they faced certain murder. Many tribal leaders understood the disgusting reality and they signed away their land. Between 1831 and 1837, Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks, Chickasaws, and most Cherokees traveled westward to their new homes in the Oklahoma territories. Some Cherokee tribes refused to relocate, and they were met with federal troops, who took them on a Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears had 15,000 Indians and one in four Cherokees along the way[9]. The Indian Removal was the worse mistreatment that the Natives incurred during this period of American