Treatment of Native Indians

Treatment of Native Americans By: Debby E-mail: Pyroqte4eva2001 After the American Revolution the new United States government hoped to maintain peace with the Indians on the frontier. But as settlers continued to migrate westward they made settlements on Indian lands and demanded and received protection by the Army. Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, organized several tribes to oppose further ceding of Indian lands. But they were defeated in 1811 by Gen. William Henry Harrison at the …showed first 75 words of 3705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3705 total…land as a result, just as the whites did in 1774 after Lord Dunmore’s War. The Shawnee revolted and lost and therefore forced off their land.(Brinkley,p.140) In summary the whites settling in the new world had an insatiable thirst for more land and would not let anything stop them and it got worse as time went on. If anything, the natives were the innocent victims and the whites were the evil, greedy devils.