Thousands were killed, and even more injured, all because of some disagreements that these 2 population’s had. There were many cultural differences that contributed to the conflict between the Native Americans and the White Settlers. Some of these discrepancies include government and economic/food differences, and diversity in religion/education. All of these different ideas between 2 groups led to this great conflict between them. First and foremost, the 2 groups had different ideas of how government and leadership should work, and the leaders created a lot of conflict themselves. As said in The Washington Journey on page 87, “Although Indians were to be paid for their land, they often paid very little and sometimes not at all.” This obviously …show more content…
caused conflict because the Whites took almost all of the Native’s land, and they promised to pay for it. Which worked out until the White’s stopped paying for it, so the new settlers were just taking land from the Native Americans. Also according to The Washington Journey at page 85, “The settlers wanted to own pieces of land.” The natives had huge areas of land that their tribe used, but the settlers wanted to split up the land into many smaller portions. This the settlers used as their own land, this was a huge difference in culture and it definitely sparked some conflict. Finally, also coming from The Washington Journey textbook on page 85, “Settlers chose leaders to speak for them and make rules and laws. Native Americans had tribal councils that made decisions. The Indian chief had to get support of the council regarding all decisions”. The White Settlers had only a few main people to make decisions, while the Native’s decisions were made in bigger groups, which led to discrimination of other sides not doing the same. All of these differences in how the government made way for a lot of disagreement between the White Settlers and the Native Americans. Moreover, economic and food supply differences led to a lot of conflict between these 2 opposing sides.
Firstly, as stated in The Washington Journey at page 89, “Commercial fishing was a significant livelihood for many americans.” The Native Americans had been using fish for their own food, then the new settlers discovered the fishing was a very economically supportive activity, this led to competition and conflict between the Native Americans and the White Settlers. Likewise, as said in The Washington Journey, page 67, “[the fur trade caused] the near extinction of fur bearing animals.” Due to this fur trade the the White Settlers brought to Washington. something that the Indians had been doing for hundreds of years, they just almost extinguished it. On the same note of ruining what the Indians had already been doing, according to a letter Chief Moses, the leader of the Columbia-Sinkhouse Indians, wrote, “People who raise hogs in my country must go with their hogs, because they kill out the young camas, and to kill that is to starve us.” Camas are a plant that the Indians ate, so the White Settlers were killing off a main source of food for the indians, the Whites did not use this as food, so these differences caused a lot of rivalry. This greatly caused conflict between the White Settlers and the Native Americans along with all the other things they did to
them. Furthermore, disagreement on religion and how children should be educated led to even more conflict between the 2 groups. For example, according to Zitkala Sa, an Indian child that attended one of these boarding schools, “i felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit”. The White Settlers did not understand the religion and beliefs of the Indians, they saw their braids as meaningless add-ons. Also, as stated by General Pratt, a leader of the White Army, “Kill the indian, save the man”. This phrase is very meaningful because he was referring to the fact they saw the indians culture as pointless, because they were not educated at all, and they wanted to change that way to kill the indian inside, but save the man on the outside. To continue, a quote said in Unseen Tears, stated “They are rapidly being brung from savagery and barbarism, to one of civilization.” The White settlers had much different ideas on how a “proper” civilization worked than the Native Americans. The settlers saw it as more educational and strict than the natives, this led to much conflict due to this disagreement. All in all, differences in beliefs and education led to much conflict between the White Settlers and the Native Americans. The White Settlers and Native Americans had grown up in completely different places and climates, and these cultural differences ranging from government to food supply, they all caused the disputes between the natives and the whites. Different cultures will always have differences, some that we like, and most that we won’t, and people will argue. We can accept these differences and learn from our mistake, and make the world a better place.
The colonist had introduced different types of work to the Creek tribes helping push them to a more civilized nature. Creeks adopted new farming techniques, new religions, and ways of life. Their relationship seemed to be good, but after the American Revolution the colonist learned more about the land the Creeks had owned. The push for migration into Creek territory became a major focus. The U.S. government tried to place laws and regulations of settlers into Creek territory, but these limits could only do so much. Creek territory was being overrun by settlers and sold illegally and there was not much they could do about it. Thus, the Creeks turned to fighting back, causing the relationship they had to crumble even more. Eventually the Creeks would be completely overrun and would be pushed out of their land once
People know about the conflict between the Indian's cultures and the settler's cultures during the westward expansion. Many people know the fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own lives peacefully for many years. There are many strong and chilling reasons and causes as to why the settlers started all of this perplexity in the first place. There was also a very strong and threatening impact on the Native Americans through the schooling that stained the past and futures of Native Americans not only with blood but also with emotion. It was all a slow and painful plan of the "white man" to hopefully get rid of the Indian culture, forever. The Native American schools were created in an attempt to destroy the Native American way of life, their culture, beliefs and tradi...
The development of the transcontinental railroad was the most devastating technological development that affected the Plains Indians. Although the railroad was powerful and helpful to the white man, it was not for the Plains Indians. The transcontinental railroad was the reason why the westward movement of the white man happened so quickly. With the white man moving westward they found valuable land for agricultural, which to be the Plains Indians land, and they found a lot of gold mines. During the time of the building of the transcontinental railroad a lot of white man killed the buffalo. They found that as a sport, and even to use it to harm the Plains Indians. At that time the buffalo was a main source of food, fur, and a hunting lifestyle for the Plains Indians and by the white man killing it off it effectively hurt them. The white man killed the buffalo in large amount of numbers that they almost made them go instinct, and they hurt the Plains Indians huge. Although the Plains Indians did kill the buffalo for their food and furs, their hunting did not have a large impact on the buffalo population. Also, the transcontinental railroad went through the land that the Plains Indians lived on. They were forced to move into smaller areas that were designated by the government. A lot of wars happened over this issue, and over the issue of gold being on their land.
A. Plan of the Investigation I. Subject of the Investigation How did the Manifest Destiny ideal affect the Native Americans in the 1830’s? II. Methods a. Research the origins of Manifest Destiny and the history of the Native Americans from 1830 to 1839. There were two websites that were particularly helpful to me. Reliability, how recently it was updated, and how easily it could be edited by Internet users were the main criteria used when selecting a website.
The clash between the Native Americans and the colonists did not start off tumultuous. In the early days of the exploration and settlement of the New World they lived in peace. The Indians taught them how to farm and live off the land. In a strange land the colonists made an ally. However, the subsequent turn of events was inevitable. Perhaps the chaos that ensued could have been postponed but there was never going to be a peaceful cohabitation between the colonists and the indigenous people. There were so many vast differences between the religious views and ultimate goals of the two groups. The Native Americans had established trade relationships with various tribes, they had their own religions, and their way of life was a stark contrast to that of the colonists. The worldview of the respective peoples was foreign to the other and the idea of a holistic and unbiased approach to the life of others was foreign.
Indians and Whites have always had a fragile relationship that could ignite into a war within days. One point in history where we see this take place is during the Yamasee War. The Yamasee War is a product of a broken relationship. Historians such as William Ramsey have examined the Yamasee War and hypothesized why the Indians went to war against South Carolina. Ramsey’s book, The Yamasee War, pinpoints various conflicts that may have started the war. These conflicts piled on top of each other and lead the Indians to their breaking point. The war was over all ignited by the flame of a broken relationship that led the Native Americans to ineffectively make a coalition to go against the English.
Overall, There were so many differences between Native Americans cultures And the Europeans. Some of the examples are, the ideas of the lands owner, religion, and the gender. Their differences are more than the similarities. The impact of their cultures it still remains in today’s society. The cultural differences and the religions differences led to a bloody was that remains for 500 hundreds
As white settlers poured across the mountains, the Cherokee tried once again to compensate themselves with territory taken by war with a neighboring tribe. This time their intended victim was the Chickasaw, but this was a mistake. Anyone who tried to take something from the Chickasaw regretted it, if he survived. After eleven years of sporadic warfare ended with a major defeat at Chickasaw Oldfields (1769), the Cherokee gave up and began to explore the possibility of new alliances to resist the whites. Both the Cherokee and Creek attended the 1770 and 1771 meetings with the Ohio tribes at Sciota but did not participate in Lord Dunnmore's War (1773-74) because the disputed territory was not theirs. On the eve of the American Revolution, the British government scrambled to appease the colonists and negotiate treaties with the Cherokee ceding land already taken from them by white settlers. To this end, all means, including outright bribery and extortion, were employed: Lochaber Treaty (1770); and the Augusta Treaty (1773) ceding 2 million acres in Georgia to pay for debts to white traders. For the same reasons as the Iroquois cession of Ohio in 1768, the Cherokee tried to protect their homeland from white settlement by selling land they did not really control. In the Watonga Treaty (1774) and the Overhill Cherokee Treaty (Sycamore Shoals) (1775), they sold all of eastern and central Kentucky to the Transylvania Land Company (Henderson Purchase).
Beginning in the 1860s and lasting until the late 1780s, government policy towards Native Americans was aggressive and expressed zero tolerance for their presence in the West. In the last 1850s, tribal leaders and Americans were briefly able to compromise on living situations and land arrangements. Noncompliance by Americans, however, resumed conflict. The beginning of what would be called the "Indian Wars" started in Minnesota in 1862. Sioux, angered by the loss of much of their land, killed 5 white Americans. What resulted was over 1,000 deaths, of white and Native Americans. From that point on, American policy was to force Indians off of their land. American troops would force Indian tribe leaders to accept treaties taking their land from them. Protests or resistance by the Indians would result in fighting. On occasion, military troops would even lash out against peaceful Indians. Their aggression became out of control.
The Effects of Colonization on the Native Americans Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worse. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture. Native Americans never came in contact with diseases that developed in the Old World because they were separated from Asia, Africa, and Europe when ocean levels rose following the end of the last Ice Age. Diseases like smallpox, measles, pneumonia, influenza, and malaria were unknown to the Native Americans until the Europeans brought these diseases over time to them.
From 1547-1618, Powhatan made a plea for peace to John Smith who was the leader of the English settlers at Jamestown. That plea for peace admonished John Smith of what could happen to him. John Smith arrived with other English settlers in 1607. John Smith was hoping to come in to conquer new land for his nation. Powhatan and the Indians provided them with food, clothing, and other things that the English settlers wanted. The turning point when all the conflict started was when the English settlers came in with swords and guns to invade the Indians, that was where the English settlers went wrong. John Smith and the other English settlers clearly didn't care about the Indians all they really wanted was more land for their nation. From the Indians point of view it was injustice of what the English settlers did to them.
One of the groups who were continuing to separate rather than unite during this period was the Native and the whites. White Americans, and the government forced the Native Americans to leave their societies, and live on reservations, instead of being a part of the main American community, so
They needed to take care of the other group of people sharing the same pieces of land they lived on, the natives, and they needed to do so without causing costs for war. Negotiations between people were made in order to secure safe and guaranteed land for the Natives, which included the promise of “...boundary protection by federal troops against land-seeking settlers.” (Roark 226) In return for this the Creeks made a promise of their own “..to accept the United States alone as its trading partner, shutting out Spain.” (Roark 226) These promises were broken by both parties involved and new approaches had to be made, and America as a young nation continued to struggle with this issue and the correct way in dealing with it. However, American 's did not only have to worry about social and political issues with the Natives who shared their lands but also with other nations, France and Britain, who America wanted to work well with but were always at war it seemed. This issue with the two other countries constantly at War made work with either side very difficult for America and the American people had split opinions on how to deal with the situation, and split opinions on what country they should work with and support over the other. This disagreement among the American people on how to deal with the situation and what sides to take lead to many mistakes in dealing with both sides over
Therefore, the Native Americans were being pushed out of their territory by the american settlers. This created a large conflict between tribes because certain Native american tribes were forced to move into another tribe's land. Another conflict was between the emigrants and the Native Americans because of them being pushed out of their land. Many fights, murders, and thefts happened from both sides due to the new settlement in the West. The U.S government tried to create peace by offering the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 to the Native Americans. It called for peace among all rival tribes as well as offered each tribe $50,000 each year for ten years. In exchange for this, the government asked for the rights to build roads, railroads, and to have emigrants be able to travel into their territories with peace. This treaty did not last very long for because a new conflict had risen among the settlers and Native Americans. A Lakota member had mistaken a emigrant’s cow for an abandoned one so therefore they butchered it for food. Lt. John Grattan and 29 soldiers had arrived to investigate the problem and shot fire against the Native Americans. The Native americans retaliated and ended up killing all of the soldiers. Similar conflicts were happening all over the west between the two sides having all sorts of different outcomes. More peace treaties were being made and were offered to try to calm down the rivalry.
The Native Americans or American Indians, once occupied all of the entire region of the United States. They were composed of many different groups, who speaked hundreds of languages and dialects. The Indians from the Southwest used to live in large built terraced communities and their way of sustain was from the agriculture where they planted squash, pumpkins, beans and corn crops. Trades between neighboring tribes were common, this brought in additional goods and also some raw materials such as gems, cooper. seashells and soapstone.To this day, movies and television continue the stereotype of Indians wearing feathered headdresses killing innocent white settlers. As they encountered the Europeans, automatically their material world was changed. The American Indians were amazed by the physical looks of the white settlers, their way of dressing and also by their language. The first Indian-White encounter was very peaceful and trade was their principal interaction. Tension and disputes were sometimes resolved by force but more often by negotiation or treaties. On the other hand, the Natives were described as strong and very innocent creatures awaiting for the first opportunity to be christianized. The Indians were called the “Noble Savages” by the settlers because they were cooperative people but sometimes, after having a few conflicts with them, they seem to behaved like animals. We should apprehend that the encounter with the settlers really amazed the natives, they were only used to interact with people from their own race and surroundings and all of this was like a new discovery for them as well as for the white immigrants. The relations between the English and the Virginian Indians was somewhat strong in a few ways. They were having marriages among them. For example, when Pocahontas married John Rolfe, many said it has a political implication to unite more settlers with the Indians to have a better relation between both groups. As for the Indians, their attitude was always friendly and full of curiosity when they saw the strange and light-skinned creatures from beyond the ocean. The colonists only survived with the help of the Indians when they first settler in Jamestown and Plymouth. In this areas, the Indians showed the colonists how to cultivate crops and gather seafood.The Indians changed their attitude from welcome to hostility when the strangers increased and encroached more and more on hunting and planting in the Natives’ grounds.