Lying In Ambush Analysis

Beginning in the sixteenth century, Europeans made the voyage to a “new world” in order to achieve dreams of opportunity and riches. In this other world the Europeans came upon another people, which naturally led to a cultural exchange between different groups of people. Although we commonly refer to European and Indian relations as being between just two very different groups of people, it is important to recognize this is not entirely true. Although the settlers of the new world are singularly referred to as Europeans, each group of people came from a different nation and with different motives and expectations of the new world. Similarly, the Indians were neither a united group nor necessarily friendly with each other. Due to the

old customs and the Ghost Dance allowed the Indians to “live like Indians and not try to live and act like

William Bradford even referred to them as “these savage barbarians” and intimated that the natives were “wild men” just like the “wild beasts” that occupied the “hideous & desolate wilderness” to which he gave the Lord credit for redeeming them from their oppressors the natives

means his intent was to shine a light on the cruel conditions of the hard working Indians and maybe

Although the Indians had many admirable talents, the Europeans respect for the natives was microscopic. Europeans from different parts of the world had conflicting viewpoints of how Indians should be treated. In the, “Native

Many European settlers have been using the term savages to refer to many indigenous people like the Yuchi, Mariames, Salinan, Cherokees, and the Puebloan. The indigenous people have always been underestimated by the Europeans settlers when being called savages due to their different mindsets and the ways of living that they had. All these tribes were called savage unjust and untrue because in the Journal of Christopher Columbus, Christopher describes them as “very well made” they look like they have very well built bodies. (qtd. in American Yawp, The Journal Of Christopher Columbus, 37-68) The Indians were really smart people but really different in many ways to the European Americans. The indigenous people are thought of as noble savages according to the article “Thanksgiving and the Myth Of Native American “Savages”” by John Horgan. Indigenous people should not be considered savages because they have were able to survive for a long time.

Threats and attacks on neutral Indians were common among soldiers. Indians lived near the forts in order to trade. Soldiers were constantly afraid and “garrisons spent more time dreading attack than undergoing it”. (130) The soldiers had no way to know if there were spies among them, which made them suspicious of all so sometimes they just killed them all. Even when the killing never happened, the threats, bullying, drinking and bragging by both whites and Indians kept the fear going.

This source is portraying that the Indians did much better when the English did not know of them. They were farming and hunting and had a enjoyable life. Until the English came and made the Indians had no choice but to fight.

The Anglo considered Indians “animals” (Almaguer 113). When Anglos encountered Indians, just a few “recognized” them as human beings” because of the difference in cultures (Almaguer 108). The first and pivotal thing the Anglos noticed about the Indians was the different color of skin. Indians “sported tattooed bodies and scarred faces and wore little more than animal skins and grass shirts,” which was seen as uncivilized (Almaguer 107). Their skin color was their main disadvantage. Indians were referred to as “‘chocolate brown,’ ‘dark mahogany,’ or simply as ‘very dark’ or ‘black’” (Almaguer 112). The color of their skin made them appear dirty. Because the Indians were not white, they were not considered human.

I read First People: An Illustrated History of American Indians, written by David C. King. Native Americans were here before I was. “18,000-13,000 BCE first humans arrive in Americas across Bering Land Bridge.” ( David C. page 15.). Native Americans started out as hunters and gathers.

One of the strategies the Indians employed when the European invaded their land was to incorporate them. Before natives fully accepted the Europeans, they still offered them help, advice, and friendship. They helped European ships to berth after several weeks at sea seeking safe anchorage. They also helped they collect firewood, fresh water, arrange small trade and sometimes sexual favor in exchange for English goods. When the Europeans made landfall and eventually settled in the land, the Indians welcomed them by giving honorary titles just as they did to other natives whom they adopted or other captives of war.

Lewis and Clark were reminding us about the events that unfolded the day before. The Indian tribe had seen our group approaching them when they caught suspicion of our actions. When Lewis and Clark stood with the chiefs they went in to shake their hands which they misinterpreted

Among the earliest known record of Native Americans in England was around 1584 when Manteo and Wanchese travelled across the seas (NCpedia). The Native Americans were brought

Not all encounters with Indians turned violent. In an effort to prevent American attacks against their villages, the

The Indian does not exist. It is an imaginary figure, according to Daniel Francis (The Imaginary Indian), invented by Europeans that originated in Columbus's mistake, as he believed he had landed in the East Indies, and developed into fantasy. "Through the prism of white hopes, fears and prejudices, indigenous Americans would be seen to have lost contact with reality and to have become 'Indians'; that is anything non-Natives wanted them to be," (5). Thus they were attributed a wide range of conflicting characteristics, simultaneously seen as noble savages, full of stoicism, the last representatives of a dying race and blood-thirsty warriors, void of emotion and dull-witted, reflecting European