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Treatment of Native Indians
Title: Treatment of Native Indians
Category: History
Details: Words: 3848 | Pages: 16.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 3848 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3848 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.
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