Indian American

Before the European Colonists came to the Eastern seaboard, the Native Americans lived among themselves and fought each other for territory. When the Europeans landed and started building homes; land and resources became scarce for the Indians causing a rift between the two groups. The Europeans “Puritans” had an entirely different view on living life than the Indians did. Furthermore, the way the Indians were treated by the European settlers was wrong and inhumane. The Europeans wanted control…

The Native American tribes shared many similarities. The Indian name came from the fact that explorers mistook them for Indians after they thought they had sailed to India instead of America. Many of them became sick because they were not used to the diseases that the new people brought with them. However, they prevailed through this as they still exist today. Although many tribes were different, they resembled each other in their religions, homes, and their food. Many tribes showed a likeness…

The relationship between the Cherokee Indians and the Euro-Americans is one that shows the inherent destructiveness of human nature due to the Euro-American’s part in severely debilitating Cherokee culture. Traditional Cherokee culture was primarily different from the Euro-American model of “civilization.” The one way that the culture was similar was in the sedentary nature of Cherokee villages. However, Cherokees differed from Euro-Americans in concepts such as ‘living off the land’ instead of…

What Native Americans fought in the French and Indian War, and how did the wars ' outcome affect them? What about Native Americans who did not participate in the war? Even before the war began, both the English and the French acknowledged that the conflict would be highly influenced by alliance with the Native Americans. The English had an advanced commercial economy that allowed them to offer the Indians material goods, but the French were favored by the natives because, unlike the English,…

The American Colonists were put through several obstacles during their journey to independence. The colonists wanted to break from Britain, hoping for religious freedom and also because Britain would not give the colonies representation. Britain puts the colonists through several taxations without representation, which angered the colonists severely. Some of the major turning point taxations were The French and Indian War, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts. The French and Indian war was a…

The American Revolution affected multiple groups of people who were living in the country during this period of time. All of these groups had different perspectives on how the American Revolution was going to affect them both during and after the revolution. The three different perspectives I am going to talk about in this essay are Whigs, Tories, and Indians. Each of these groups has a completely different view on how the American Revolution will change their world, depending on which side they…

The effect that the French and Indian War had on the coming of the American Revolution was an extreme victory for the British and brought a great impact. Britain got to expand territories and because of the war it also increased their nations debt. The war creates lots of anger towards the colonists among the English who were upset with the disagreements with money. They were upset with all of the taxes that the British were imposing on them for no reason, just because they were in so much debt…

The American Revolution was an uprising of colonist people who where discontent with the British authorities. There bravery to fight against the British army and to oppose the king had a great payoff and shaped the America we have today. From 1765 to 1783 many significant events happened that inspired the colonist to go into revolution. This war was not an overnight thing, British build up hate from the colonist for several year. And one event, even though not directly but did have a great…

Cheyenne Paragraph The Cheyenne were a powerful,resourceful Native American Indian tribe.They often allied with Sioux and Arapaho.The Cheyenne settled along the Missouri River near the Mandan and Arikara tribes.The most Famous chiefs in the Cheyenne tribe included Dull Knife,Chief Roman Nose and Morning Star.There are a band of warriors called the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.They were extremely courageous and fight to their death to protect their people. They migrated west across the Mississippi…

The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. This war changed the economy, politics and social relations between British, France and the American Indians. Before the war began, the biggest problem they had was the division of the continent. The English were located along the east coast, in Georgia, the Carolinas and the northeastern United States. The French controlled Louisiana in the south and far north, Acadia and northeastern Canada. The French…