Outline

Native American Treatment

    I. 17th and 18th Century - disease
        A. New England – lived separate – Squanto interpret saved > Thanksgiving
  1. King Phillip > relative Squanto’s tribe > unites New England
  2. Pennsylvania/William Penn & Rhode Island/Roger Williams buy land
  3. 1704 Deerfield Massacre – raid/tomahawk/kidnap
  4. Albany Plan of Union – Franklin – union 1754 w/ Iroquois against other tribes
        B. Virginia – “starving time” > stealing > Indian Raids
        C. Spanish – encomienda – slavery, missions - California
        D. French – worked with – fur trappers
        E. French and Indian War – 1757-1763 – Proclamation Line of 1763 – no west of Appalach.

    II. 19th Century
        A. War of 1812 – 1795-1809 48 million acres sold to gov’t
        1. Battle of Tippecanoe – Tecumseh – united – treaties others Indians – defeated
        a. British helped > Native Americans warpath > kill settlers > war begins
        B. Andrew Jackson – move > west Mississippi
        1. 94 Treaties – some peaceably, some fought
        2. Seminoles – Florida swamps – Chief Osceola – 1830s
        3. Cherokees – Americanized – Georgia
        1. Clothes, farms, factories, schools – Sequoya – alphabet
        2. Worcester v. Georgia – Marshall saved lands
        3. Jackson “Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
        a. Trail of Tears – 1838 – 15,000 – 1500 died
        C. 1850-1900 – 420,000 > 250,000 left
        D. Indian Wars – 1850 > 1890 – buffalo basis of life, slaughtered by whites
        1. White settlers move onto lands, forts to protect travel
        2. 1868-1869 – gather onto big reservations – forced out of wilderness
                a. Many resisted – “Wild West” – Custer’s Last Stand – Sioux – Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse Chief Joseph “From where the sun now stands I will fight no more, forever.”
3. Wounded Knee – kids, women slaughtered – signaled the end...