During the white encroachment on the Native American lands, Tecumseh wanted to unite all Indians tribes as one in order to collectively fight against the whites. He was a political leader, and his main concern that he made evident was that the whites had no authority to sell the land. He was removed from his land because he did not have the deeds for his property, yet the U.S. was signing off (what do you mean sign off??) for people who did not have deeds to buy land, “You said that if we could prove that the land was sold by people who had no right to sell it, you would restore it” (Tecumseh, 206). Tecumseh believed that anyone who was to sell the land should receive the death penalty. He was a firm believer that the whites did not deserve their land that the tribes resided. His solution for this problem was to create a great council, which would create one united government within all the tribes. “We shall have a great council, at which all tribes will be present. We shall show to those who sold that they had no rights to the claim they set up, and we shall see what will be done to those chiefs who did sell the land to you” (Tecumseh, 206). In this …show more content…
government the death penalty would be allowed, and should happen to anyone who has sold land to the whites. He also wanted the council to create an army incase war was to become necessary. Tecumseh’s brother, Tenskwatawa, also did not support the white settlement of the land, but differently than Tecumseh did. Tenskwatawa wanted to go back to the good old days. He represented the millennial movement through his tribe. He wanted to be completely separate from the Americans. He also wanted to avoid everything that the white men have brought to them, such as religion. He wanted his tribe to become completely self-sufficient once again, “So now we depend upon the very people who destroy us!” (Tenskwatawa, 208) He believed that they had given up too much of themselves and whom they were in order to please the Americans. Native Americans came from all over the United States to hear him speak and support him. He ideas were more based on a cultural movement for his people. The “five civilized tribes” were tribes that adopted white culture. They had slaves, lived in two story homes on plantations, raised European crops, and educated their children in American schools. These tribes had two advocates for the response of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Principal Chief John Ross and Major Ridge visited Washington D.C. attempting to stall the removal. Ross wrote letters and met several times with President Jackson. Throughout his time advocating for his people he ended up petitioning two law suits against the United States Supreme Court. The “five civilized tribes”, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were all alike because they all fought for their right to have their own land, and not the whites.
Although, they all had different ways or different people fighting for them, they believed that their land belonged to them and should not be sold to the whites. Tecumseh and the “five civilized tribes" supported the death penalty to anyone who sold land to the whites. A major difference between the two groups were that Tenskwatawa wanted to go back to the old days and their culture, yet the “five civilized tribes” already accepted white culture. Each group had different tactics, Tecumseh was in favor for fighting by creating an army the “five civilized tribes” believed in the Supreme Court to be on their side, and Tenskawa wanted to maintain a religious
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Tecumseh had risen up as a leader to defend the Shawnee’s way of life. Through decades of violence, he emerged to have a pivotal role in attempting to smooth cultural divisions between tribes and collectively oppose the seizure of their land.
In 1811, Indiana was a territory rather than a state. A charismatic Indian leader, Tecumseh, led a confederation of tribes in central and northern Indiana and opposed further American expansion. Governor William Henry Harrison aimed to gain land for settlers and achieve statehood. These competing interests led to conflict in the fall of 1811, culminating in the Battle of Tippecanoe and the destruction of an Indian town and the center of a new Indian confederacy, Prophetstown. Harrison’s strategic aims and actions were not in line with the intent of his commander, President Madison. However, Harrison’s leadership during tactical action in the Battle of Tippecanoe demonstrated effective execution of the doctrinal tasks of Mission Command.
As Tecumseh got older, he started to provide for those who could not get food on the table for their families, and he was also very helpful. He was know for the kindness and concern he showed for his tribe members. When he became a warrior, he refused to take part in the Treaty of Negotiations, and this made a good impression on the people of his tribe, so this increased his standing among his followers. Tecumseh built a confederacy among N...
Tecumseh was known as a warrior. He fought the battle of the Ohio River Valley territory
Many tribes resisted this policy. Wars were fought as a result. The Sac and Fox Indians in Wisconsin and Illinois reoccupied their lands after having been forced to move west of the Mississippi. They were defeated. The Seminole Indians refused to sign a treaty to give up their lands. They, too, fought and lost a bitter war to remain on their land.
Persepolis Argumentative Essay In the memoir “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi we learn the effects the revolution had on the Satrapi’s family. To summarize, Marji grew up around the Islamic War. This caused her to become very curious about why people act a certain way or do things. In the story, she is constantly learning from what’s right and wrong.
Andrew Jackson signed the indian removal act in 1830. This act allowed him to make treaties with the natives and steal their lands. The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of more than 15,000 cherokee Indians. The white men/people gave the natives 2 options: 1. Leave or 2. Stay and Assimilate (learn our culture). The natives couldn’t have their own government. There were 5 civilized tribes including the cherokees. They learned english and went to american schools and when the cherokees went to court they won.
Tecumseh ,Shawnee war chief, was born at Old Piqua, on the Mad River in western Ohio. In 1774, his father, Puckeshinwa, was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and in 1779 his mother, Methoataske, accompanied those Shawnees who migrated to Missouri, later died. Raised by an older sister, Tecumpease, Tecumseh would play war games with other fellow youths in his tribe. Tecumseh accompanied an older brother, Chiksika, on a series of raids against frontier settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1780’s. Chiksika had a vision that he would not survive the battle at Buchanan’s station he went ahead as plan and attacked the stockade and was mortally wounded and was carried from the battle field and the dying warrior asked not to be buried but to be placed on a hill. Tecumseh and the other’s retreated back to a Cherokee village where most went back to Ohio while Tecumseh and some other warriors stayed behind. After that Tecumseh went on mostly hunting but occasionally attacking settler’s. After that moved back towards home and come to find out that the Shawnee’s had moved on to where it’s much safer. The battle of Fallen Timber’s broke confidence in British assistance as well as many casualties. Pissed off by the Indian defeat, he refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville (1795). In the 1800’s Tecumseh began to show signs of a prominent war chief. He led a group of yong Indian warriors to a village on the White River in east-central Indiana. There in 1805 Lalawethika ex...
...convince us Indians that our removal was necessary and beneficial. In my eyes, the agreement only benefited Andrew Jackson. It is apparent that Jackson neglected to realize how the Indian Removal act would affect us Indians. When is the government justified in forcibly removing people from the land they occupy? If you were a Native American, how would you have respond to Jackson? These questions need to be taken into consideration when determining whether or not Jackson was justified. After carefully examining these questions and considering both the pros and cons of this act, I’m sure you would agree that the removal of Native Americans was not justified under the administration of Andrew Jackson. Jackson was not able to see the damaging consequences of the Indian removal act because of his restricted perspective.
Once the white men decided that they wanted lands belonging to the Native Americans (Indians), the United States Government did everything in its power to help the white men acquire Indian land. The US Government did everything from turning a blind eye to passing legislature requiring the Indians to give up their land (see Indian Removal Bill of 1828). Aided by his bias against the Indians, General Jackson set the Indian removal into effect in the war of 1812 when he battled the great Tecumseh and conquered him.
President Jackson declared that “our ancestors found them the uncontrolled possessors of these vast regions” (188). It has been through persuasion and force that we have moved the Native Americans until some tribes have become extinct. The governor, Lumpkin, of Georgia argued that the state cannot exercise against the constitutional rights and moral duty. The Cherokee’s claimed that the treaties and laws of the United States had guaranteed their residency, their privileges and secured them against intruders. Even though the Cherokees had successfully appealed to the Executive, Legislative and Judicial governments Georgia continues to rob them of their laws government and land rights. The Cherokee people petitioned to the government of the United States to fulfill their promises and protect them and all they were given for a response was that the United States could not interfere. Even though I believe the Cherokee Nation had to fight for their sovereignty none of the choices available to them would have provided them with a good resolution. The white people really did not want them to assimilate because they feared them and considered them uncivilized. Moving freely to unknown lands would have been very difficult. By this time the Indians had suffered many losses from disease, they were becoming dependent on
This piece is a primary source written directly to the American leader to effectively question social authority over people and physical land. Tecumseh is a Shawnee Native leader who strives to get attention of the newly appointed governor of the former Indian territory to appeal to him that the land does not belong to anyone. He appeals to Governor Harrison by using Christianity as basis for his argument. He claims that the beliefs of the Americans promotes terror and destruction arguing that Christianity is the wrong argument for taking over what once was shared by the Native American community. Since the revolution, the United States yearned to establish a strong military presence to claim power and territory for itself. We see in the Monroe doctrine that removing European influence from Latin America enables the U.S. to claim all the resources that are essential for development. These were the same resources that were abundant in the West, which encouraged Jefferson to design a team to identify more about it to later seize control. Tecumseh makes a logical argument for the future of the native tribes by proposing his own plans.He does not tolerate the violent and bloody way that the whites of the country employ to take control of false identified property. It is Tecumseh’s best decision to write this speech because the destruction and collapse to the native people is an inevitable future, that Tecumseh sees
Both writers believed the relentless encroachment of the settlers upon their native land was harmful to their people. Red Jacket and Tecumseh shared in the idea that their land was a given right by the Great Spirit and that the settlers were unjust and did not have the right to take their land. In Tecumseh’s writing it clearly states, “The Great Spirit made all things . . . [and] supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children” (Hunter 233). Similarly, Red Jacket proclaims, “There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island . . . The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians” (Stone 230). Their shared belief was that the Native Americans, and not the settlers, had the rights and entitlements to the land. The shared generalization between the two indicates Native Americans were the true inhabitants of this land and distinguishes all others occupants as foreigners with no entitled rights of
Andrew Jackson was not justified in instituting this policy of relocating. “Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears."This was the wrong thing to do because the Indians try to be fair and 5 nations were affected unfairly. White Americans treated them unfairly. Andrew Jackson was not justified in instituting this policy of relocating The Native Americans.
Prior to Tecumseh’s reign, his father, Pukeshinwau, was the Shawnee chief. Unfortunately, his father was later executed at Point Pleasant during a confrontation. Subsequently, Tecumseh made his first visit to Canada at Fort Amherstburg, Upper Canada, where his brother had been invited by William Claus. Being very skeptical of the British, Tecumseh was not content to meet the king. Nonetheless, Tecumseh allied himself with the Redcoats and spread the word of the assembly among the First Nations. He made his message clear that the First Nations must stand strong in order to preserve their land, traditions and beliefs. Consequently, one thing the British and Aboriginal peoples had mutually similar was that they both were antagonists of the Americans. Therefore, Tecumseh concluded that the Natives and Brits had to assemble as one to regain control of what is rightly theirs. Without Tecumseh’s governance and fortitude to defend British North America, Canada would may still be under British control, or worse,