Post by arduinna on Jun 14, 2006 13:40:18 GMT -5
hi everybody
I am trying to educate myself about the treaties.
I thought some of you might want to read about it, too, to follow up the plan and the process of how your land was stolen... again: divide, (....) and conquer.
Link 1)
www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/indian.html
Link 2)
ioway.nativeweb.org/history/treaties.htm
Quote
The Treaty Process
The way the treaty process went was something like this (from the U.S. point of view)
1. Establish a legal relationship with the tribe, and exclude it from similar relationships with other countries like Britain or France.
2. Establish boundaries between tribes (there were rarely hard-and-fast boundaries between tribes), and try to stop intertribal warfare, much of which was caused by the migration west of tribes being pushed out of their lands by white settlements and wars further east.
3. Once the tribal boundaries were fixed and relative peace was made, white squatters began to move in and occupy the best Indian farming areas and to hunt out the wild game.
4. Once the best areas were taken by whites and game was scarce, conflicts between the tribes and the squatters was inevitable.
5. Establish U.S. Military power and deal with the conflicts by removing the Indians to more distant lands. The Indians sometimes went willingly along at this point because the best areas and the game was taken by the whites. When they didn't go along, the U.S. Military would use the conflict to force a settlement and removal of the tribe to a more distant area, with promises that this would be the last time of removal.
6. Begin the next phase with Step 3 (above), and repeat again and again...
I am trying to educate myself about the treaties.
I thought some of you might want to read about it, too, to follow up the plan and the process of how your land was stolen... again: divide, (....) and conquer.
Link 1)
www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/indian.html
Link 2)
ioway.nativeweb.org/history/treaties.htm
Quote
The Treaty Process
The way the treaty process went was something like this (from the U.S. point of view)
1. Establish a legal relationship with the tribe, and exclude it from similar relationships with other countries like Britain or France.
2. Establish boundaries between tribes (there were rarely hard-and-fast boundaries between tribes), and try to stop intertribal warfare, much of which was caused by the migration west of tribes being pushed out of their lands by white settlements and wars further east.
3. Once the tribal boundaries were fixed and relative peace was made, white squatters began to move in and occupy the best Indian farming areas and to hunt out the wild game.
4. Once the best areas were taken by whites and game was scarce, conflicts between the tribes and the squatters was inevitable.
5. Establish U.S. Military power and deal with the conflicts by removing the Indians to more distant lands. The Indians sometimes went willingly along at this point because the best areas and the game was taken by the whites. When they didn't go along, the U.S. Military would use the conflict to force a settlement and removal of the tribe to a more distant area, with promises that this would be the last time of removal.
6. Begin the next phase with Step 3 (above), and repeat again and again...