Ever since the Spanish explorers happened upon the Americas in 1492, there has been a large amounts of violence that occurred between the Native Americans and the European settlers. The subject of the brutal confrontation has been widely talked of for several reasons; one of them being was the violence avoidable? It put it simply, no the violence was inevitable. The European settlers and their American descendants kept the Native Americans under their thumbs, unabling them to defend their rights and home. The Natives didn’t have to fight back, but a peaceful protest would have ended in even more casualties than what had already occurred. People are only able to withstand so much abuse until they break and fight back. There is two sides
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From the beginning, the European were always land hungry, after Christopher Columbus returned from his first voyage to the “new world” in 1493, he wrote a letter to the Spanish government explaining the land he conquered, “This is a land to be desired...Here in a place most suitable and best for it’s proximity to the gold mines...I took possession of a large town [from the natives]...” It is quite obvious that Columbus took over the town for his own best interest, which mainly revolved around gold. Unfortunately, the Indies lacked gold but, that didn 't stop the Spanish from overworking the native people and giving them a gold quota. Consequently, the native were treated with extreme cruelty, for instance if one of the Natives didn 't meet their quota, which happened quite often, the spaniards would cut off their hands, mane and/or kill them. After a while, the Native people became furious with the Spanish and started to revolt against them. Many of these revolts were short lived with but, they were able to get a treated signed granting the Indian population the right of freedom and of possession. In this case, violence helped the Natives regain some of their freedom. Differing from Columbus 's letter is Tecumseh 's early 1800’s speech about trying to stop the expansion of America, “Where today are the Pequot...and the many other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarie [greed] and …show more content…
Sometimes violence is needed to really prove a point in a time, or to show how serious a problem might be. Throughout history, people have been fighting for their rights in violence ways, in peaceful protest or somewhere in the middle. In the past few years, a new movement has been on the rise, the “Black Lives Matter”, this organization is to stop police brutality and racism against people of color. This movement has had both violent and peaceful protest, both protests are needed show the absolute injustices of racial stereotyping that people are facing on an everyday basis. Even though, the struggles of the early Native American and today’s people of color happened in two different time period they still face similar things, like feeling unsafe in their own homes or being treated as a stereotype is something both had to fight
From the beginning, the European were always land hungry, after Christopher Columbus returned from his first voyage to the “new world” in 1493, he wrote a letter to the Spanish government explaining the land he conquered, “This is a land to be desired...Here in a place most suitable and best for it’s proximity to the gold mines...I took possession of a large town [from the natives]...” It is quite obvious that Columbus took over the town for his own best interest, which mainly revolved around gold. Unfortunately, the Indies lacked gold but, that didn 't stop the Spanish from overworking the native people and giving them a gold quota. Consequently, the native were treated with extreme cruelty, for instance if one of the Natives didn 't meet their quota, which happened quite often, the spaniards would cut off their hands, mane and/or kill them. After a while, the Native people became furious with the Spanish and started to revolt against them. Many of these revolts were short lived with but, they were able to get a treated signed granting the Indian population the right of freedom and of possession. In this case, violence helped the Natives regain some of their freedom. Differing from Columbus 's letter is Tecumseh 's early 1800’s speech about trying to stop the expansion of America, “Where today are the Pequot...and the many other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarie [greed] and …show more content…
Sometimes violence is needed to really prove a point in a time, or to show how serious a problem might be. Throughout history, people have been fighting for their rights in violence ways, in peaceful protest or somewhere in the middle. In the past few years, a new movement has been on the rise, the “Black Lives Matter”, this organization is to stop police brutality and racism against people of color. This movement has had both violent and peaceful protest, both protests are needed show the absolute injustices of racial stereotyping that people are facing on an everyday basis. Even though, the struggles of the early Native American and today’s people of color happened in two different time period they still face similar things, like feeling unsafe in their own homes or being treated as a stereotype is something both had to fight