Wampanoag And Cherokee Comparison Essay

Another difference between the Wampanoag and Cherokee was in the way they understand how to own their lands. Wampanoag agreed to share or sell their lands to the European Americans and they refused to take the payments. In the Wampanoag tradition, they believed the lands and all creatures were the gifts from God and everyone deserved to get it but they must protect it. It made the European Americans easily take Wampanoag’s lands and declare as their lands. The European Americans started an aggressive expansion to the Wampanoag’s territory. On the other hand, “Cherokee built their own land laws which was the tribe collectively owned all Cherokee land and forbade land sales to outsider” (Norton 176). They learned how to advance the function of …show more content…
The aggressive expansion of colonist territories and the collapse of trade partnerships between the Wampanoag and European Americans became the early problems that destroyed the relation between the Wampanoag and European Americans. The European Americans no longer needed the Wampanoag because they became more independent and powerful. The European Americans identified the Pequot as a challenge for their expansion. In 1637, According to Norton et al., “The Massachusetts Bay expedition the following month attacked and burned the main Pequot town on the Mystic River. The English and their Narragensett allies slaughtered at least four hundred Pequots, mostly women and children” (35). The Pequot war was a signal of the ruin relationships between the Wampanoag and European Americans. On the other hand, even though the European Americans already took more than a half of Cherokee’s land, “In the 1820s, Georgia pressed them to sell the 7200 square miles of land they held in the state” (Norton et al. 176). Since Andrew Jackson was elected, his first concern was to resettle the resistant tribes west of Mississippi. These situations became the main problem that ruin relationships between Cherokee and European