Section D Analysis In the beginning, the British first arrived in America in order to conquer more land under the British name. The British realized this was not possible after the Native Americans refused to give up their land. An “Indian removal” policy was put into action and the Natives began to be removed from their lands and relocated onto “camps”. The British used religion as an excuse for their actions as the treatment of the Natives became gradually worse. Documents prove that the British intentionally killed off the buffalo in areas populated by the Native Americans.
We can see this in source 2, page 38, by the medicine man of the Blackfoot, painted by George Catlin. This has a very negative view on the Sioux Indians because it is showing that they have killed animals and that they don’t care that they wore animal skin over their clothing and do not realise that if they killed animals just for that then their food supply will run out quicker. This source is produced by George Catlin, who is a reliable white US soldier, settler. It is reliable because who it is produced by, as he saw a lot of things that the Sioux Indians did. It is also unreliable because this is a painting of what they were when they were in a ceremony not there everyday life.
Well of course it is. These indigenous people stood in the way of the accomplishments of the white people who came here to make progress. They were not like the whites, they did not feel the need to own the land nor did they posses the same culture, and so they had to go. As Robert Jensen puts it, the leaders of our country justified this decision “by asserting that the non-white people being murdered were not fully human, or at least had no rights which the white man was bound to respect” (Jensen p. 33). Mary Crow Dog also writes about the intentional killing of her people this in her book, Lakota Woman.
Throughout this novel, Peter Silver justifies the actions of the early American colonies. This paper will illustrate how America has and still reacts to fear and horror. Peter Silver tries to clarify that the motives behind the war were based on fear instead of racism. He uses pictures, poems, maps, and other symbols throughout the story to help state his claim. The first photograph sets the tone of the book.
With the French defeat in the French and Indian War (1754–63), Indians west of the Appalachians found their survival threatened because they could no longer play off the French against the English. Aware that the presence of only one European power in their vicinity meant that the old trade system had broken down, in 1763 the Ottawa Chief Pontiac rallied many groups formerly allied with the French in an effort to oust the English from the Ohio Valley. Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–66), although relatively successful in cementing a pan‐Indian alliance, ultimately failed. The English government tried to achieve peace in 1763 by a royal proclamation separating Indians and English settlers at the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. While the proclamation's promise that all land west of he Appalachians would be reserved for the Indians weakened Pontiac's alliance, it did nothing to lessen Euro‐American pressures on Indian land, as American traders, squatters, and speculators flowed unchecked into the Ohio
Interestingly enough, Americans generally fail to associate the United States as a country that has been victimized by genocide. This could be because the public overlooks the incident as a mere war. Even though I state that the altercation between the European colonists and the Native Americans was just as tragic as the Holocaust, I have no intentions of comparing the genocides or give
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
The second reason so many people died was because relations with American Indians. In DOC E it says that there were multiple colonist killed by Americans Indians in 1607. DOC D says that if the colonist treated the American Indians better, they would have had a better relationship. This would have helped the colonists when the American Indians sided with the colonists. The finial reason why colonist of Jamestown died so quickly was because of settler skills.
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.
RELIGION IN AMERICA – MIDTERM REVIEW Cultural misunderstandings in the encounter between Native American religions and Colonial missionaries - Native Americans thought they were themselves guests of the land so how could anyone say you own the land. - When the Europeans came to the New World they wanted to enforce Christianity on the Native Americans. The Church and priests took this as they were converting. But converting means changing your ways and the Native Americans would not change their spiritual lifestyle. The two groups went to war and the Native Americans targeted and killed many priests.