Motivations For Little Turtle 's Success

Another cause for poor relations between Native Americans and European Settlers was the constant push for acquiring new land by the Colonists. The Native Americans did not just want to give up their land and this resulted in war between the Indians and the Colonists. During this time Native Americans were sold into slavery belittled and removed from their land, due to the fact that the Colonists had more advanced technology and weapons. One of the major wars was the French and Indian War which resulted in the removal of Native Americans from their land and many casualties on both sides. Over time many battles were fought over land, even after America was an established country with presidents, laws, and court systems. Native Americans were continually pushed out of their land for hundreds of years while they were forced to move west. The constant push of Native Americans out of their land would cause an event known as the Trail of Tears where thousands of Indians were removed from their land by the Indian Removal Act. “In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." Although many Americans were against the act, most notably Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett, it passed anyway. President Jackson quickly signed the bill into law. The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an

In 1790, the Americans faced a great defeat against Little Turtle and his tribe. Out of the 1800 soldiers sent to capture the land, only 900 came out alive. The battle has no name. Anthony Wayne returned and

During the American Revolution, white people cherished the Indian Removal Act because it forced the Native Americans out of the valuable land. For instance, the Indians were forced out of Georgia because there was gold there and the white people valued and felt they deserved it! The Native Americans tried all avenues and did everything in their power to attempt to keep their land but were unsuccessful. The Memorial states “As a distinct nation, notwithstanding any unpleasant feelings it might have created to a neighboring State, we had a right to improve our Government, suitable to the moral, civil, and intellectual advancement of our people, and had we anticipated any notice of it, it was the voice of encouragement by an approving world.”

The Twenty-First Congress agreed with president Andrew Jackson that the tribes had to be separated into other territory. Congress stated that the territory that Indians had was part of the United States. They also mention that they will have to exchange the land, or they would be forcing them out and reverting their land to the United States. Land that was taken away from these tribes had to be improved such as adding value to the land and then paying it off for the improvements that had been made. After removing the Indians congress claimed that it was the right of the president to help them with any assistance after being removed from their previous homes.

Later on “there was intense pressure to acquire Indian land, by debt-ridden states and a federal government anxious to use public land to pay off war debts, and from speculators who saw fortunes to be made from the sale of thousands of square miles of virgin timber and agricultural acreage, of waterways, mill sites, harbors, and so forth” (Wallace 30). Profits and paying off others were more important than the Indians and their rights. Due to these pressures and greed, “the U.S. commissioners at the Treaties of Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh, and Fort Finney in 1784, 1785, and 1786 “gave” peace to the Iroquois and the Indians of Ohio. In return, the Indians present at these meetings promised that their tribes would vacate much of their land north

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.

The war of 1812 was fought largely in indian territory, indian tribes were participating on both sides. The Americans felt that if the indians are helping us they no longer belonged to the king. Great Britain accused the United States were wanting to remove the tribes or the nations of indians. The Americans argued about how they were being humane by their “ practice of acquiring indian land only by treaty.” (The War of 1812.)

The United States government also wanted to gain control of the Indian Tribes territories for its own reason. They government believed the land could help boost the economy of the United States. The federal government also wanted to have control of the Indians land so that they could sell it to land speculators and settlers who would move on to the land

The U. S. then proceeded to divide up this land, but settlers could not buy any of it until 1788. Many Americans became restless and decided to go in and settle these lands illegally, not honoring their treaty with the Indians.

The native Indians surrounding New England were very closely related in culture but lacked political unity. Most of the tribes were subdivided into many bands. Each of these bands would wage wars against each other although causing few casualties the defeated were humiliated and had to pay tribute to the winner. These Indians were much less demanding from nature as they moved between locations as seasons passed. As the New England colonists saw this they appointed themselves to judge how much land they needed as they took the rest. The Indians did not understand how this working expecting it to be an agreement to share the land although shocked when they were arrested for trespassing. As the colonists kept cutting down the trees creating land

After the American Revolution, the Native Americans and the American hostile relationship begun to decrease little by little, but after the war of 1812 their relations begun to deteriorate. After the war of 1812, a lot of white Americans begun to move to new US lands in the west where a great number of Native American tribes including the Cherokee. This created hostility between the Cherokee tribe because white Americans are moving into their lands that was given to them by a treaty. The Cherokee people did not want to give up any lands because that is their home and where the want to live. Since Cherokee people did not want to give up, the US government passed the Indian Removal act that made the president trade lands West of the Mississippi

From the conflict in non-physical it leads to the conflict in physical aspect. To the Native Americans, land is something that they have to respect. On the contrast, the European considered land as a tool to enrich them. As a result, tribes lost massive amounts of land to the U. S. Government, for which they were often neither paid nor compensated. “By 1820, they had lost claim to over half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Most Native Americans and some whites thought that the government's relations with Native Americans were marked by dishonesty, corruption, and deception. By 1838, almost all native villages in Michigan had been abandoned.”

Analyzing the history of the natives of America, it is important to emphasize that the conquerors from Europe were originally adopted on American soil by its inhabitants not hostile. The American Indians shared food and knowledge, in honor of this, and Thanksgiving was based. But the colonists were greedy for the land; they considered the indigenous people savages because they did not use the land as they did. The American Indians respected nature and lived in harmony with it, they did not deplete the land and killed animals only for food, and not for entertainment. During the American Revolution, the western border of the United States was the Appalachian Mountains. The land in the colonies valued, many sought to populate wild lands beyond these mountains. The war with the indigenous people quickly developed into a violent conflict during which entire settlements of the Indians were destroyed. The problem had to be solved, and the government decided that the

The Trail of Tears is an event that has echoed through the years of the cruelty and loss of human life. The desire for more land as settlers moved west, caused a divide between what the people wanted and the lives of the people that already lived on the land. White squatters would pillage the tribes land, commit murders, and force natives to sell their possessions by taking hostages. Unfortunately, little was done to stop it. As far as Jackson was concerned the “states were not responsible to the central government for the justice of their law” (Cole, pg. 113). Congress’s view was “todays criminals are tomorrows voters” (Heildler, pg. 37). The fate of the natives on their land was sealed by President Andrew Jackson in one of the most horrific events that have happened on United States soil. The signing of the Indian Removal Act started years of suffering and death for the natives that had lived on this land for generations. The natives were subjected to many hardships during the years of the Indian Removal.

When the Europeans came to America, the Indians offered many gifts. They gave the Europeans survival tips, crops, and animal fur to help them start colonizing. The Indians saw the Europeans as visitors, some even seeing them as Gods. Therefore, they treated them with respect and showed them all they needed to know about the land. One change that the native Americans had to make when the Europeans came over was the idea of owning land. The Indians shared everything they had and never thought about what land belonged to which tribe. When the Europeans came over and started claiming land, the Indians were shocked and did not understand why the Europeans were doing this. The native Americans had to get used to this idea along with many others that the Europeans