Simmering dispute between the colonists vs. Metis, and NWC, The Metis & NWC believed they had more claim the red river area then the colonist. When the 1813 colonist crops failed, under the command of MacDonell he issued a pemmican proclamation to save the colonist from starvation. Metis & NWC relied on selling this product were banned from selling it. Metis & NWC retaliated and harassed the colonist who soon left, soon peace was made with the Metis & NWC under new command Colin Robertson, soon after the colonist returned, and Semple became in charge again, semple attack NWC for the raid by the Metis, who seized a supply of pemmican (Metis viewed it as a reasonable compensation for MacDonell’s Pemmican proclamation) War was declared by semple…
The Indians were now viewed from a colonist 's perspective as a conquered race living in that territory illegally, even though they were truly there first. Over the next century people would continue with the idea of expansion and move out in the west to take over lands that were occupied by the Indians. Several wars were waged between the white man and Native Americans. The Revolution unleashed expansion and new settlements that would force out the Natives from their homeland into a century of death, disorder and deprival. This war was extremely revolutionary to the Indian and American…
This resulted in native land to become reduced for other white Americans. Initially there was the belief that natives were to live as neighbors with the Americans, however the theory was shut down which later caused the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, causing all natives to live in a separate…
Since the Native Americans did not know about God or have as advanced technologies, such as guns, the settlers deemed them as lesser people. Their success made the Europeans angry and jealous that they were not superior and then became concerned about fighting with the Indians than their own needs that they needed to set up so that they could survive there. The Indians were actually the only thing that were keeping the settlers alive and the constant guerrilla warfare that went back and forth between the two groups diminished the trust between both of them. They were constantly fighting with the Native Americans which was a poor idea because they were their main source of food.…
Issue and Controversies in American History Dawes Act Americans believed in 1840, that they had to move westward; although the land was taken by the Native Americans. The Dawes Act, was a way to end the conflict between white settlers and the Indians; by giving the Indians and settlers their own plots of land. After the American Revolution white settlers continued to come to the New World, taking more from the natives for ranches, railroads, mining interest, as well as their own needs, causing the natives to have to move farther west. The government sought out to resolve the issue by giving the Indians large pieces of lands called reservations. Whites weren’t allowed to trespass on the land.…
Western migrants and the Native Americans were in disagreement with each other and often fought over land, which led to a takeover. Once the land was seized and the Native American went to live on reservations the settlers discovered gold. It is my opinion that the treatment of the Native Americans was selfish and unfair. The Native Americans were victimized by settlers. I believe that the government should have honored the promise made by Lewis Cass, U.S. Secretary of War in the early 1800's, that the Native Americans would not loss their land.…
They believed that you could use it but not own it , settlers saw land as profit. As Black Hawk, a, a leader of the Sauk tribe said: “The great Spirit gave it to his children to live and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.”(as cited in crash course us history #1).This is important for one to relies on because it was the key conflict that leads to the natives and the English to fight . Englishman also saw the natives as uncivilized and wanted to convert then to Christianity when in reality the English who was uncivilized ,by taking land ,burning and killing natives ,or forcing to obey by English rule.…
When settlers first arrived in America they were hoping to migrate in search of freedom of religion, which they very well had. One could even say that these settlers were the impecunious in the beginning, but as time went on, the average poor white settler hoped to gain affluence through expansion as they also fought to gain rights equal to the rich. Whether, the struggle includes taxes, creating a new system of gov’t, or having a whole country willing to expand westward, the poor white settlers of America have always ended up gaining something from these historic events.…
Even when some settlers found sympathy with the Indians, it was impossible to fight for them with the authority that was against them. There was absolutely no hope or chance for the Southern Indian nations in this instance. Taking it further, some Indians peacefully consented to the treaties of exchange with promise of western lands and experienced more issues in the new land than they had experienced in their attempts to stay on their old lands. It was simply a cruel act of deception to rid of any obstacles in the way of white land…
To understand what exactly led to the eventual fighting between the Native Americans and European settlers, one must first learn the cultural differences between them. While, some Native American’s learned to “coexist” with new foreign settlers trading and interacting with them, other natives did not like these invaders and were eventually destroyed, usually by force. These new Europeans tried to bring their new way of life to the natives while these people just wanted to maintain their traditional and natural way of life. Native Americans wanted to live for their family, religion and becoming one with nature. They believed that all things were connected spiritually and that their actions could directly influence nature around them.…
Indian desires were simple and attainable for the most part. All they required from life were buffalo to feast upon, safety from neighboring tribes and a good harvest. These cravings were on a different spectrum to those of the Europeans. The foreign society desired gold, and glory, and where convinced that the Indians withheld them. The natives held no account to gold and were amiss to the concept of it.…
After the spread of alien diseases, conflicts, and poor treatment from the settlers, the Natives soon began to realize who were the true enemies. The settlers were blind to the Native’s complex society, and believed they were “godless savages”, only because they were not measured by materialistic items, like the Europeans. Soon the settlers forced their religious beliefs and culture among them or condemned the Natives to slavery. Most of the English settlers saw the Natives simply as an obstacle to obtain their dreams in this New World. The settlers were ruthless; they wiped out whole tribes to obtain more land for their indentured servants, personal prosperity, or entirely new colonies for the flowing immigration.…
The settlers wanted the Indian peoples land . The settlers “ were chiefly interested in displacing the Indians and settling on their land, not intermarrying with them, organizing their labor, or making them subjects of the crown” (Foner 54). The Englishmen did not want to mingle with the Indians that they were completely against marriage between the two communities . The racism to the Indians pushed them out of their lands and away from their resources. The Indians had to settle in new lands because of the…
Nineteenth century America saw much expansion west. People from every state sought to travel out west for various reasons. Some would travel out west for a promise of new life, some sought gold, and others desired to cultivate the vast land. The trials, hardships, and obstacles facing settlers did not deter them; even if it meant clearing out the natives living in those regions. Robert May, writer for PBS, writes that the leading factor driving expansion was Manifest Destiny, the idea that the expansion of the United States was ordained by God.…
In the Native American society, personal goods such as tools were considered yours only if you created them yourself. Even if something was owned it was considered readily replaceable. Despite their easy nature of personal goods, land was different. The land which crops were grown and the area their wigwams stood on were, in their minds, possessed by them in spite of the fact that they moved every couple of months to a new area. They also believed that their main hunting and gathering lands were theirs to claim.…