Compare And Contrast Lewis And Clark

In Jackson’s mind, he expected the Indians to thrive as they did in their current home, except there would be no white men. Three chiefs, each one from the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa tribes, came forward to the White House and told about their suffering. They said they were promised land as fertile as Illinois, but received land that a snake couldn’t live on. They could not live in the prairie when they were from the woods. Thousands of Indian people suffered because Jackson heard what they said

The relationship between Lewis and Clark and the Native Americans is an extremely controversial topic. It is generally in question whether Lewis and Clark were respectful to the Indian tribes they encountered on their expedition. The answer is much more complicated than a simple yes or no, and the answer changes through each person’s opinion. From multiple pieces of evidence, I believe that Lewis and Clark were mostly disrespectful to the Indians with a few exceptions. The evidence for this position come from: a passage of a letter from Jefferson(document A), a diary entry of Meriwether Lewis(document B), a modified Time Magazine article(document C), and Lewis’s speech to the Otoe(document E). These documents help to support the notion that

Instead of simply showing gratitude for the aid on their journey, they are kicked off their land and given poorer, underutilized grounds to live upon. The white people took land that was already theirs and decided to purposely cause cultural-genocide for the Natives. This shows rudeness and disrespect because the Natives aided them, and without their help Lewis and Clark would be lost and probably

In 1835, President Andrew Jackson proclaimed that the Native Americans were to be removed from their homeland. Jackson claimed that the Native Americans were “savage hunters” among the “civilized population.” Also, during this time Jackson was preparing for his second term where he refused to help the Native Americans for then he would be conflicting against the whites.

    With the unconstitutional Indian Removal Act, Jackson forced more than one native american tribe to move from their land. He had done this because he says he was looking out for them so the white people and natives didn’t fight anymore. The Native American tribes hadn’t done anything wrong but Jackson still forced them to move. The Cherokee tribe was considered one of the “civilized” tribes since they had a president, dressed like normal people in that time, and had a government like our own. The Cherokee tribe had been forced to move because some wealthy lawyers had signed the treaty and Jackson took the treaty knowing that the president wasn’t the one who had signed it (“Treaty of New Echota”). It wasn’t just the Cherokee tribe that had been forced to move but also the Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole,

The men of the expedition had plenty of challenges to face on their return back home. The men was only half way through their journey and they had already spent 95% of their money they had received to go on the expedition. In the beginning of the expedition the men didn’t know what they was going against. They didn’t know how to manage the food and supplies they were provide to go on with the expedition. Lewis, Clark and the rest of the men learn their lesson from when the expedition first begun. The captains decided to put supplies into caches that had stretched from the Nez Perce country to the Great falls. That was a brilliant idea that the captains had made because now they can replenish as the move east ward back home.

Jefferson had secured agreement form the ambassadors of England, France, and Spain that their counties would not try to interfere with Lewis and Clark expedition. The explorers met with Osage Indians on their way of expedition but the Indians were peaceful. For unknown to Leis and Clark, the Spanish had reneged on the promise of safe conduct given to Jefferson by the Spanish ambassadors. Yrujo had warned his Spanish men that American were taking toward the South Sea and he urged commandant Salcedo general of Viceroyalty of New Spain to arrest Lewis and his followers and to seize all the documents that may be found on them. Then Salcedo encouraged his Indian allied to attack Lewis and Clark, but Comanches Indians never found them. The Lakotas was invited to the council by a French-Canadian interpreter who had lived among them and the first meeting with the Lakota was done well. I think Lewis and Clark could have exacted amicable relations if they were acting on their own because they both worked under the order of Jefferson to explore.

A long time before this land was called the United States, the Cherokee people used to live in this land in the valleys of rivers that drained the southern Appalachians. These people made their homes, farmed their land, and buried their dead. Also these people, who are now called Indians claimed larger lands. They would use these for hunting deer and gathering material, to live off of. Later these lands were called Virginia and Kentucky. As it is mentioned in the text, these people had their own culture and own way of life. They had their own gender roles and religion; even eating food had a different definition than the white man’s culture. They had equality between genders, and other members of the tribe had equal rights to talk. But

"The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians, their lands and property shall not be taken from them without their consent, and in their property rights and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed." Thus Thomas Jefferson describes U.S. policy towards Native peoples concisely, and with the proper grace of a Virginian gentleman. No ambiguity or contradiction seems to exist in Jefferson's words, and nothing but good will towards Native-Americans seems to be instilled in Jefferson's rhetoric. But in observing Jefferson's curt follow-up to the statement above, "unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress," a turnabout appears, leaving one at a loss as to a tangible United States

The native americans had the most barbaric experience with the manifest destiny time. The indians had done no wrong, but own land where the americans wanted to settle. As a matter of fact, Amy Greenberg wrote,” European powers laid claim to territory over which effective control was clearly in the hands of the indian tribes and the native americans were often the dominant powers in areas where the young United States hoped to expand”. (Pg.10) When andrew jackson figured that the indians were going to slow down the process of them moving into the louisiana purchase territory, he had to have them removed somehow. There actually was land the indians gave up claims on but not

As the U.S. population began to expand into the west, they came into increased contact with the Indian tribes. The issue of American expansion and opposition from Indian tribes had always been a constant topic of debate in the U.S. congress. Some men adopted the Jeffersonian idea and argued that tribes that became "civilized" could be assimilated into the nation. Others urged for the complete removal of Indian tribes from U.S. territory. The conflict came to the front stage when Andrew Jackson assumed office. Jackson's vision for the future of the nation, and that of democracy had no room for Native Americans in U.S. territory, and thus believed that the best course of action for the country was for the forceful relocation of Natives west of

Even before the end of the war many of the Native Americans had grown to resent both European powers. They had felt betrayed by both and found that the fighting on their lands were useless. They had only chosen the French as an ally simply because they grew tired of the British’s push into their lands. This belief though did not go away after the war either. Yet just as the French and American colonists would grow tired of the British control so would the Native Americans. Their fears had grown over the years as they saw the rise in European diseases and death due to wars and they were just as tired as the rest of them. It did not matter that the British were going to try to settle them west of the Appalachians.

The United States perspective on the Native people has drastically changed from President to President. “George Washington originally started the ‘Indian Civilization Campaign’, which encouraged the Native people to adopt Western-European culture along with Christianity.” (Sturgis, pg 5) The United States was to recognize the Native groups as the owners of the land they inhabit, with the rights to sell or retain them. This ideology was later adopted and implemented by Thomas Jefferson who believed that it was, “established by Jus gentium for America, that a white nation settling down and declaring that such and such are their limits, makes an invasion of those limits by any other white nation an act of war, but gives no right of soil against the native possessors.” (Sturgis, pg 5)

Andrew Jackson fueled his troops by describing the Native Americans as “savage bloodhounds” and “blood thirsty barbarians.”(Brinkley, 212) The General made every attempt to depict the Indians as the enemy, who should be suppressed for the benefit of the white man. After the triumph at Horse Shoe Bend, Jackson told his troops:

Some of the policies that America made with Native Americans were broken promises and lies. Some of these would include the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, which stated that they should have been treated with the “utmost good faith” and their lands to not be taken from them, yet settlers had military protection that helped them take over territory,