Compare And Contrast Tecumseh And Native Americans

A general history of Native Americans has been a part of my education for as long as I can remember. I remember how during the week before Thanksgiving, my 1st grade class did a skit about the “First Thanksgiving”. In order to look like Indians we made vests out of paper grocery bags and crumpled them up to look like leather and drew on them with crayons. When I think of my education of Native American culture, I think of going to North Pacific Reservations and seeing 10-12 ft tall totem poles with the shapes of animals carved into them. Most of the Native American tribes that I have learned about have been Western United States tribes because I grew up in California. When I read the list of Wisconsin Native

Tecumseh attempted to ally with many tribes, but did not have much success. Tecumseh has read many treaties, but he never signed one (Greenspan). He also made treaties and messages to tribes and governor Harrison. Tecumseh spoke to the Alabama creek Indians and allied with them (Tucker). Many tribes that he tried to join rejected him (Tucker). He allied with the British and pro British Indians to fight the Americans (Fixico). More than two dozen native nations participated

Imagine bathing in water so dirty that you come out finding yourself filthier than you were in the first place. Imagine having two armies fighting each other, your enemy has weapons, but you only have perfume and wigs at your side. Envision hearing a loud BOOM and opening your eyes just to see your only companion dead. This was the life of the settlers in Jamestown in the 1600’s. The first load of colonists landed in Jamestown on May 14, 1607.

In the “Address to William Henry Harrison”, Chief Tecumseh uses pathos and causal relationship to propose an offer to General William Henry, while in The Letter to President Pierce by Chief Seattle connotations are being used as well as pathos. Chief Tecumseh calls his audience to bring awareness on how the Spanish are wrongfully taking advantage of the natives and their property. The Spanish had previously succeeded the natives around 1800s in hopes of strengthening their realm. As Chief Tecumseh states, “You are continually driving the red people, when at last you will drive them into the great lake, where they can neither stand nor work.” (L. 14-15). Tecumseh uses emotional appeal to evoke pity towards the native americans in hopes of receiving help from General William. He also uses cause and effect to show

Before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, many tribes had grown and flourished in the Americas. Most tribes had their own organized governments and religions, but some tribes occupied entire regions, such as the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest or the Mississippi River Valley tribes, and were different from the numerous nomadic tribes. They had extensive trade systems, sophisticated farming systems that resulted in a ready supply of food, and thousands of citizens. The two groups had a lot in common, but they also had several differences that distinguished them. The Pueblo tribes had a more developed sense of unity than the Mississippi River tribes, and this unity gave them an advantage that the Mississippi

I believe when Jackson compared settlers moving for a better life to removing Indians from their homes he was wrong. He was trying to make it seem it was the same things to prove himself, I believe that was because deep down he knew he was wrong but that did not outweigh the benefits he saw. Jackson uses the term “savage” to refer for the Indian people when the only thing that made them savages was that he did not know who they were. He referred to Christian as “civilized” only because those people were like him. Indians have their own cultures and beliefs.

Like all Native Americans, the Shawnees were viewed savages and godless by Euro-Americans . Euro-Americans are Americans with European blood or they are simply “White”. The views that Euro-Americans or Whites had on the Shawnees are like how majority of minorities are viewed by the Euro-Americans. Nevertheless, Collin Calloway detailed Tecumseh and the Shawnee tribe. The Shawnee and the War for America destroyed this belief that Euro-Americans had on Native Americans as Collin Calloway showed his readers that the Shawnee tribe were well organized as any civilized society at the time. The relationship that the Shawnees had with the Europeans stretched to the British and French conflict in 1754 and from there the relationship with the Europeans

During the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Europeans started to come over to the new world, they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different, one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them, such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic, while, considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies, and they thought that the Indians society and culture should be changed to be very similar to their own.

Tecumseh was a Shawnee Indian chief who had been born around 1768 near Springfield, Ohio. During the early 1800s, he started to oppose the United States, and attempted to create a confederation of Indian Tribes to rebel against the United States. One of the main reasons Tecumseh opposed the United States was the fact that white people were squatting on Native American land, and was forcing his people out. Although Tecumseh opposed whites, he knew how to speak their language. Tecumseh was described as a six-foot tall man with “fine” features. He had been rumored to be fluent in English, and most surprisingly, also in French. He also managed to turn his brother’s religious teachings into political movements in order to get his fellow Native Americans to support his movement. [Collins, pg 36-40]

The Shawnee chief Tecumseh a well-known Indian, became famous for his attempt to merge the Native American tribes against the Americans. In 1809 he began his voyage in order to profess his requests. A few years later Tecumseh arrived in the Osage Nation around the region of Oklahoma and tried to influence the Osage Nation with his political agenda. Tecumseh had wanted the Osage Nation to join the pan-Indian confederacy. Jointly with other unique tribes and the military aid of the British troops. Tecumseh the Shawnee chief called upon the Osages to start or commence war against the Americans. The speech Tecumseh presents gives evidence of his political standing.

At first Native Americans, Europeans and Africans were separated by the vast oceans in between their continents, but as technologies and trade in Europe advanced the three region’s worlds collided. There were various similarities and differences in policy, economy and religion amongst the three regions but alas, contact between these empires reaped inevitable change among all these for the better or worse.

The arrival of New English colonists foreshadowed the doomed fate of many Native Americans. Along with Native American being affected by colonialism, a chief named Tecumseh of the Shawnee Tribe asked,“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and much other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the white men”. The chief questions the presence of many tribes due to the colonists.

Shawnee leader, Tecumseh, was not a happy Native. He blamed the greed and oppression of the Europeans for the destruction of the Native American cultures. The Europeans greed led them to strip the land from the Natives, and try in forcing their religion upon the Natives. Tecumseh believed that the land was for all. There was nothing about selling, taking, and giving the land away. The Europeans just did not have that mindset at all. Red Jacket was a Seneca leader. He was very discouraged of the fact that they took the land of the Natives, but even more because they wanted to force their religion upon the Native Americans. The Europeans were ruthless when it came to this. They did not think about their feelings and the actions that could hurt the Natives. (Doc 4, 5, 6)

Chapter 7 of Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions begins by describing the tense state of affairs between American Patriots and Native Indians in 1775. Both sides feared the other and were determined not to let their enemy defeat them. The Patriots were angry with the British for seeking alliance with the Indians, compromising their “racial solidarity”, in order to gain a military advantage. The Natives believed that American independence would be the catalyst for their downfall into slavery and landlessness. The author moves on to say that this was not the case with all tribes. For example, weak bands of Indians in the Carolinas allied with Patriots and fought in their army in hopes for protection after the war. However, the reality was that

Tecumseh’s Speech to the Osages, which he is believed to have given to his fellow Native Americans around 1811, is extremely powerful and passionate. What makes his speech powerful is the fact that it is his response to the events carried out by the colonists toward the Native Americans, which included the stealing of their land and the killing of their people. This clearly has a large impact on Tecumseh and the audience, which is evident throughout the speech.