Native American Benefits

I am a Native American from the Stockbridge tribe during the time period of the Revolutionary War. The Declaration of Independence consisted of the Second Continental Congress meeting at the at the Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. This document announced that the Thirteen American colonies that were at war with Great Britain, have announced themselves as the thirteen independent states, that were no longer under British rule. Although this was in favor of colonist this did not benefit the Native Americans. From a Native american's perspective we were treated poorly by the colonist and it does not benefit us to sign the Declaration of independence. The Declaration of independence did not support the Native Americans economically …show more content…
Native Americans had no representation at the First or Second Continental Congress. They had no say in what they believed in nor did they have respect from any of our own the founding fathers nor colonist. According to wikipedia's article called “Royal Proclamation of 1763” On October 7, 1763, King George III, had announced a proclamation that had forbidden any type of colonial settlement throughout the western hemisphere of the Appalachian Mountains. Although this Proclamation had been a commandment this had aggravated hundreds of American colonists which they continued their expansion into the western area of the Appalachian mountains, from there on they conveyed into contemporary farm lands. Therefore this shows that although there was a law stating that the colonist were not allowed to move into the western hemisphere they still did because they did not respect Native American …show more content…
When the colonist first arrived they immediately attempted to maintain control of the land that the natives have first come upon before the colonist did. When they addressed this idea to the natives, they Immediately rejected it. From there, the colonists wiped out a huge population of the Native Americans by many different ways. First the natives had no immunity to the diseases that the colonist have carried along with them. The diseases that killed hundreds of the Native Americans were most commonly measles, smallpox, influenza. The colonist had also resulted in such horrific manners. Colonists attacked the natives by harassing them as well as killing thousands they killed the natives for land, racial beliefs, and lastly because they saw an opportunity of wealth. They also took some of the natives into slavery to work on their plantations on farms that the colonist had built on their land. Over all colonies showed no remorse for the Natives, they didn't give them a opportunity to have a say, never the less give them a opportunity to adjust to their new life