Fraud Friendship Dbq

In the 17th century, the Native Americans had been living peacefully in their own little world, until suddenly, the British come upon this land. Little did the British know, tribes of natives already lived there. The countenance of the Native Americans did not go over very well. There was tension between the English and the Native Americans. For example, they fought over the land of the “New World”. As expected, the Natives were fearful and angry when foreigners showed up and proposed new religious beliefs. The British and the Native Americans’ relationship changed due to those coming over for religious freedom and economic prosperity.

While killing one another, is already not socially proper the Settlers also cramped the American Indians on their land. They decided to place their forts in center of Powhatan settlement asking to attacked bu the natives. The map on page five depicts the placement. As well as placing the forts in Powhatan land they also have some by sea, in wait of the Spanish ships. While being preoccupied, of the Spanish invaders out in sea they have forgotten of threats five miles away. The colonists are unprepared to make peace with the Native Americans, my evidence illustrates how they hurt and mistook the power the alliance would have which would benefit them greatly since they did not have

For fifty years, the first generation of English settlers and Native American Indians maintained peace with one another using a peace treaty agreement between Chief Massasoit of the Pokanokets and the English settlers. Moreover, the Natives and the English treated each other with respect and traded with one another. Thus, if either the English or the Native American Indians went against the terms of the treaty or disrespected each other in any way, the peaceful relationship would cease. However, as the second generation of English people emerge, the terms of peace became forgotten, and the English began to disrespect the Pokanokets. The breakdown of relations between the Native American Indians and the English Settlers was caused by the failure

Although we called them savages, they may have been more civilized than we knew. The Native Americans’ cultures have some aspects that reflect on our modern social advancements. The Plymouth colony was founded in 1620. Based out of Eastern Massachusetts, the Wampanoag tribe, in particular, made advancements in women’s place in society, the standings of a social hierarchy, and a more modern form of government. Wampanoag tribes, pre-colonization, made more social advancements than their European counterparts.

4b. There are several “lies” that are traditionally taught to American students about this subject. Textbooks include a portrait of full-dressed Europeans with half-naked Native Americans in the 1771 treaty by William Penn. This is a lie because textbook authors are trying to get away with saying that the Europeans were “civilized” and that the Indians were “primitive.” This is because of their eurocentrism that does not fool those who think a little deeper because Penn would have either died from heat exhaustion in August if that is when he made this treaty, but if he made it after Thanksgiving, the Indians would be suffering from frostbite. Either way, it is clear that this portrait included in textbooks is misleading and inaccurate. Textbook

With the initiation of the 17th century came the colonist from the "Old world", in addition two settlements came to be, Jamestown and Plymouth which were greatly aversive from each other. To the Colonist surprise the Continent of the soon to be discovered America had already been inhabited by wandering Natives groups and tribes. Through out the years of 1067 to 1704 the European and Natives had attempted harmony between the two through various cultral contracts, however the Europeans benightedness destroyed that image and had altered that into a very destructive conflict. The colonization of the European was followed with an unstable yet somewhat peaceful relationship between the existing Native groups. The Native had came forth willing to

Trigger agrees that “...the native American evidence was strongly colored by a desire to please Europeans...historical records are stereotyped in various ways that must be understood before they can be used reliably as historical documents” (Trigger, 1991, p. 1196). Trigger’s thorough article provides clear, specific situations that occurred during European contact, and the position they were affected in. For example, Natives believed the Europeans were“...supernatural spirits...Europeans...offered...supernatural interpretation in terms of native religious concepts” (Trigger, 1991, p. 1200). This situation is related to the romantic behavior of the Indians as the Europeans were arriving into their land. A historiographical example which relates and agrees to Trigger’s argument is the novel, Native Americans: Opposing Viewpoints, because it provides several different viewpoints rather than favoring only the

The making of the treaty was a problem and a conflict for several reasons. One is that the Indians didn’t like it. They were very afraid of being moved onto a reservation. They hated being on reservations because they knew that the Americans were going to put them on the same reservation as 40 other tribes. Plus they didn’t want to move onto the same place with an enemy tribe!(Schuster 65) Neither would I. They would probably get into a fight or an all out war actually! Furthermore there were hardly any resources for one tribe, so how were they going to feed several? Especially when there were hundreds in each tribe! (Lambert, 150) Another reason the Indians didn’t like the treaty was because they couldn’t tell if the Americans were telling the truth, America had broken promises and ripped up treaties with other nations and tribes before, why not this one? Then there was the reason about not wanting to cede their land. It was theirs to keep. They had rightfully claimed that land and who were the settlers to take it? They had made that land livable and they were not about to give it up to a nation that was greedy and selfish in their eyes. Another reason why they didn’t like the treaty was that they didn’t want to give up their land. They wanted to be able to hunt and grow plants and fish, use their own herbs, use their own spices without having to beg, buy, and starve.

When Europeans encountered the Native Americans, the encounter was fraught with difficulties for both sides, for the Native Americans more so than the Europeans. Europeans conquered the Native Americans, forced them into labor, and spread diseases which the Native Americans had no resistance to. In addition to this the Europeans considered themselves superior to the Native Americans. Despite this, the Europeans and Native Americans, both had things the other wanted and so they often engaged in trade with each other. However, the Native Americans thought that, despite not having the luxuries the Europeans had, they were better off than the Europeans. This sentiment is exemplified in “Your People Live Only Upon Cod” by French priest Chrestian LeClerq who was traveling with the Micmac Indians. It is a documented response by an unknown Micmac leader to European, particularly French, claims of superiority. In analyzing this document, we will find that the cultures of the French and the Micmac were vastly different. We will also discover what the Micmac and the French thought of each other.

Before the Europeans arrived in the Americas, the Indigenous Tribes had their own languages, customs, and legal systems. These legal systems were completly new to the Europeans, because they did not focus on the Anglo norms of ctime and punsihment, instead, they focused on the restoration of peace and tranquility within the tribe. When any members had a disagreement, they would present the problem to the tribal elders who would sit with the two parties and their families and simply talk; they would talk until a unified decision could be made. This unanimous decision would be the final one, no one could undermine the decision of the elders. This custom was called the Peacemaking Circle and wasso alien to the invading Europeans, they saw the Indigenous People as savages, desperatly in need of salvation.

From the very first interaction, the social and political relations between the Native Americans and the Europeans had begun with much tension. Many Europeans came to the Americas with the intention of discovery. However, when it became apparent that these new lands were inhibited the motives changed, and then the natives were colonized, abused, and in many cases killed. From then and throughout the impending periods of time, the relations between the natives and the Europeans had a few points of mutual peacefulness, but were overall negative.

The relationship between the English and the Native Americans in 1600 to 1700 is one of the most fluctuating and the most profound relationships in American history. On the one side of the picture, the harmony between Wampanoag and Puritans even inspires them to celebrate “first Thanksgiving”; while, by contrast, the conflicts between the Pequots and the English urge them to antagonize each other, and even wage a war. In addition, the mystery of why the European settlers, including English, become the dominant power in American world, instead of the indigenous people, or Indians, can be solved from the examination of the relationship. In a variety of ways, the relationship drastically alters how people think about and relate to the aborigines. Politically, the relationship changes to establish the supremacy of the English; the English intends to obtain the land and rules over it. Socially, the relationship changes to present the majority of the English settlers; the dominating population is mostly the English settlers. Economically, the relationship changes to obtain the benefit of the English settlers; they gain profit from the massive resource in America. Therefore, the relationship does, in fact, change to foreshadow the discordance of the two groups of people.

In the textbook, during the early 1600’s, Spain received encomiendas which allowed, “With labor in short supply throughout the Spanish colonies, settlers led occasional raids against nomadic Plains Indians, keeping some captive and shipping others south to toil as slaves in the Mexican silver mines” (Jones 34). On the side hand, Native Americans started the beaver fur trade with the Europeans. While Native Americans provided labor and knowledge with processing the fur, in return, Europeans provided goods, service, and protection which included guns. Native Americans’ relationship with colonists has always been welcoming; sharing their food with the colonists during the “starving time”, but colonist abused the service the Native American provided (Jones 43). Similar to the colonist experience, Native Americans were treated with some respect and worth in European’s eyes during the beaver trade, but once other people started learn how to do process the beaver to wearable fur, Native Americans lost their worth and were tossed aside (Franks Lecture).

To better understand the conflict between the Europeans and the Native Americans, one must closely examine the state of Europe’s economy at the time. Europe struggled with difficult conditions. This included poverty, violence and diseases like typhus, smallpox, influenza and measles. There were widespread famines which caused the prices of products to vary and made life very difficult in Europe. Street crimes and violence were prevalent in cities: “Other eruption of bizarre torture, murder, and ritual cannibalism were not uncommon”.2 Europeans

The average British citizen in America during the 17th Century had a preconceived notion of Indians as savage beasts. However, before the arrival of the British, the New England Indians, specifically the Wampanoag tribe, lived a harmonious and interdependent lifestyle. Conflict among the Wampanoag was limited to minor tribal disputes. The war methods of the Indians were in fact more civilized than the British methods. The close living quarters of the British and Indians forced the Indians to adopt aspects of British civilization in order to survive, such as the ways of warfare. Douglas Leach in his book Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in the time of King Philip's