Native American Relations Quotes
The Navaho were at constant war with their neighbors—the Mexicans and other Indian Tribes who often would capture Navaho women and children and make slaves of them. This is one of the earliest examples of the United States acting as a peacemaker.
With different concepts of land ownership Europeans and Indians were at odds over purchases from the earliest times. This was the first of the many efforts to eliminate problems of contention with Native Americans over land.
Not all whites were allowed to usurp all Indian lands. There were many attempts to limit white settlement to avoid friction with the Indians although the overall tendency was for the whites to take over and dominate the land.
The British, with few troops in the West, armed Indians and paid for American scalps.
In a tragic irony, the two chiefs were killed by a year later at the Sand Creek Massacre.
if trade between the British and the Sioux were terminated The essential difference between the British and American interests were that the Hudson Bay Company—the English authority in Canada—was generally interested in short term commercial profits from trading including guns and alcohol while the Americans wanted pacification so that the Westward expansion and growth of the country could move forward. To the Americans at the time, it was a forgone conclusion that the few Indians would have to share their land with the more numerous whites. The different between doves and hawks at the time was how. The hawks wanted to simply drive the Indians out. The doves like Meriwether wanted to develop a trading dependency on America for modern goods. Therefore, the problem boiled down to making America the sole supplier of most goods. The strategy did not work as the bloody history of relations with the Sioux will attest.
Not all Indians resented the coming of the white man. Several of the more peaceable tribes benefiting by interactions with the United States and some even sought affiliation—especially the military weaker tribes which would be protected by an alliance with the Americans.
The purpose was to persuade the Iroquois Indians to stay neutral in the coming conflict with England. Iroquois had traditionally traded peaceably & on many occasions the colonists & Iroquois had fought against the French and other Indians. The colonists appealed to their strong sense of fairness--{610960}. A Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, had traveled to England and been educated there. He persuaded 5 of the Iroquois tribes to join the obvious winner—England. Only the Oneida joined the revolutionists. The result was a civil, fratricidal war of not only white, but also of Iroquois who had been at peace with each other since any could remember. When the colonists won, the Oneida were warmly embraced and participated in colonial life and activities. (A little over 200 years later the average earnings of the Indian in New York State exceeded that of the average white.) The other 5 Iroquois tribes however were driven from their traditional lands. They fled with Joseph Brant to English Canada.
Marquis de Seignelay. This shows that the concept of ethnic cleansing has been around for some time. The only thing that prevented the French from implementing the plan was that they couldn’t defeat the Iroquois. There is a certain irony here in that the Iroquois were very much allied with the British even during the American Revolution. After that war, the Iroquois were run out of their traditional lands, not by the French but by the Americans. And where did they go and resettle? Up to then British Canada, the very area where the French so feared them.
He and the 7th Cavalry were themselves whipped and killed shortly thereafter.
