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Native American Response to Settlers

Initially, the Native Americans welcomed the peaceful Cherokee Indians. They
the Europeans to America. Christopher worked within the confines of the legal
Columbus reported to Queen Isabella and system of the United States to resist
King Ferdinand that the Indians on San their forced removal from their homelands
Salvador Island responded warmly to the in Georgia. They filed a lawsuit with the
gifts the Europeans gave them, and United States federal government against
"became so entirely [their] friends that the state of Georgia to be able to remain
it was a wonder to see" (Hurtado in their traditional homelands. Although
45).Montezuma and the Aztecs welcomed the they ultimately lost the lawsuit and were
Spaniards as a God that came in forced to leave their homelands, the
fulfillment of their destiny. This Aztec Cherokee tribe did not turn to warfare as
belief induced them to submit themselves a response to their tragic displacement.
entirely under the Spaniards' rule. Many The majority of the Cherokees quietly
Native American tribes, such as those submitted to the march known as the Trail
encountered by Jacques Cartier, Cabeza de of Tears, in which so many of them died
Vaca, and Hernando de Soto, regarded the along the way due to exposure and
Europeans as powerful shamans or Gods. starvation from lack of adequate
The Native Americans would bring their provisions.The Plains Indians, such as
ill tribal members to them to heal their the Lakota, were the most likely Native
sickness (Hurtado 56).The influx of Americans tribes to respond to their
European goods greatly altered the oppression with open warfare. The taking
relationship between the Native Americans of the Black Hills is a very good example
and the invading Europeans. As the Native of this. When the settlers first began to
Americans began to use European goods, swarm into the Black Hills looking for
such as hatchets, iron arrowheads, sword gold, the U.S. government initially tried
blades, knives, and other goods, their to keep them out in accordance of the
dependency upon Europeans became more treaty with the Lakota and their allies.
established. Divisions between tribes But as more and more gold-seekers trekked
began to emerge as some Native American in, the federal government reversed their
tribes allied themselves with the position. The government offered to buy
English, and others allied themselves the Black Hills, which was rejected.Then
with the French settlers.Initially, the the U.S. government issued a law
Christian missionaries were accepted requiring all the Indians to vacate the
also, as the polytheistic Native Black Hills. This action led to such
Americans did not resist the worship of violent confrontations as the battles of
the Christian god. But when the Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee. Not all
conquering Europeans began to rigorously the Plains Indians fought in this war, as
suppress the Native Americans' religion, many of them followed Red Cloud and
they began to resist. As in the case of remained out of the fighting. This taking
the Tewa Indians, they resisted passively of the Black Hills is still an important
at first by keeping their religious issue today, since the Lakota tribe
observances hidden from the Spanish. But continues to assert their claim over the
as the Spanish invaders became even more Black Hills, and refuses to touch the
ruthless in suppressing their religion, money the United States government holds
the Tewa Indians openly rebelled, killing in trust for the purchase of the Black
many of the Spanish, including Hills.BibliographyHurtado, Albert, Peter
non-combatants such as women, children, Iverson, and Thomas Paterson, editors.
and priests. The Tewa Indians also Major Problems in American Indian
ransacked Christian churches and History: Documents and Essays. Houghton
desecrated their holy places.Another type Mifflin Company Collegiate Division,
of resistance used by the Native 2000.
Americans is exemplified in the case of




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