Indians throughout were forced to surrender their lands, and although they put up resistance, it was not enough to stop settlers’ expansion and the Indian’s lands were violently taken, and many were killed in the process. “Behind the English invasion and their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on private property. ...the need for space, for land, was a real human need. ..this human need was transformed into the murder of whole peoples.”(Zinn, pg. 16, A People’s History Of the United States) Wealth and fortune was measured by the amount of land a white man had ; therefore, acquiring land by exerting power with lies and deception was the goal of any settler who wanted to be perceived as a prosperous wealthy man.
The west was expending inevitably. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 established the Sioux Reservation. The U.S government pledged to keep whites out of this territory. In 1874 Lt. Col. George Custer and his army discovered gold in the Black Hills, which led to different battles between the Americans and Sioux who just wanted to defend their area, homes and way of life. On June 25, 1876 Lt. Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn by the chiefs, Sitting bull, Gall, Crazy Horse and their men.
It was said that the Navajos were better at stealing animals and the New Mexicans were better at stealing people (159). The New Mexicans and the Indian tribes of the American west went after each other for years which almost lead to war until Colonel Doniphan wrote a treaty of peace between the two groups (190-191). Like the Indians, the Americans didn’t have a strong relationship with the New Mexicans. They didn’t have one because the Americans were siding with the Indians in the almost war they had. Also, the New
Multiple treaties were made with the Native Americans; however, these treaties were rarely enforced and often broken, especially during the time of gold rushes. Once the United States had fully expanded to the West, it seemed like the only thing left to do was populate the area. However, there was a problem, Native Americans occupied and had occupied the Great Plains for hundreds of years. To solve this problem, the United Stated government created Native American reservations to avoid clashes over land boundaries between Native Americans and white settlers, and issued a series of treaties with the Native Americans in attempt to buy out their land and relocate them. By confining Native American tribes, the military could keep a watchful eye on their activity and occasionally provided for by federal effort.
Battle of Little Big Horn Thinking on Indian Reservation only exposed a form of discrimination, an instrument of control and grown limitation. June 25 and 26 of 1876 a submission plan for the Lakota Sioux, the Arapaho tribes and Northern Cheyenne was release to 7th Calvary troops and Infantry Soldiers of General Terry and Lieutenant General Custer to obligated the Indians to return to the Reservations. It seems that more than take the Indians back to reservations the intentions of the military troops was exterminated this clans of the Native American. The strategic decisions and coordination of each execution plan prove an upcoming hostile confrontation that Americans thought to have victory over. (Fox 1993).
The Common Dissent After a thirty-year presidency, Porfiro Diaz’s centralized agrarian policies favoring the elite haciendas had caused formidable rebellions in the North and South of Mexico. Diaz established many new technologies and industries only to appeal to the greater European investors. These industries, such as mines and sugar plants, robbed the people of their land, dehumanized working conditions and cut minimum wages resulting in major dissent among the suffering middle class. By October of 1910, during Madero’s release from prison, militant rebellions led by local leaders erupted in the North and South states killing several units of Federal troops. Separated geographically, Poncho Villa in the North and Emiliano Zapata in the South contrasted in both their origin and military strategy, while
They began to remove the Indians on the accusation that the Native Americans did not respect "the power of the United States of America” (E) President Andrew Jackson stated, "We bleed our enemies in such cases to give them their senses" (E). He called them enemies and felt justified to remove them. In 1790, most of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains was unsettled but after the War of 1812, there was a great increase in population (A). The increase was due to the conquest of Indian land by the U. S. Army. In 1794, the U. S. Army defeated the Shawnee, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes at the battle of Fallen Timbers in northwestern Ohio.
Little is known of Cochise's early life. By the mid-19th century, he had become a prominent leader of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Like many other Chiricahua Apache, Cochise resented the encroachment of Mexican and American settlers on their traditional lands. Cochise led numerous raids on the settlers living on both sides of the border, and Mexicans and Americans alike began to call for military protection and retribution. War between the U.S. and Cochise, however, resulted from a misunderstanding.
Zinn pointed out, “Jackson land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in the early American history”. Zinn also pointed out, “He became a hero of the War of 1812, which was not... just a war against England for survival, but a war for the expansion of the new nation, into Florida, into Canada, into Indian territory”. Jackson was well involved in dealing with Native Americans prior to becoming president. Due to advancing into Indian territory for U.S. expansion, as stated he became the most despised enemy of the
In the 19th century the United States was in the midst of expanding westward. While moving West, Anglo-settlers encountered many native people who had already inhabited this land. With the desire to solely usurp land, tensions between Native Mexicans and Anglo settlers were inevitable. Because both groups spoke different languages and were unfamiliar with each other, stereotypes against Mexicans were only bound to happen. For instance, many Anglo settlers stereotyped that their Mexican counterparts were ignorant, helpless, and above all, inferior.