Native Americans Pontiac, Red Jacket
We are going to take a look at Three Native Americans Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh to see what the relation are with the white men. We are going to see how they gave to the white men and how the white men took from the Indians. Pontiac was an Ottawa Indian; Ottawa derives from the Algonquian atawewin, meaning “commerce” or “to trade”. There’s Indians were one of the first to deal with the white men and were told many times to stay away but relied on trades and other things from the white men. Pontiac was allies with the French with trade and other things until about 1762 when the British defeated the French at Fort Detroit. “Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Commander in chief of British forces in North America, turned command of Detroit over to Henry Gladwin, a man who shared his abundantly documented contempt for Indians. Gladwin continued Amherst’s policies of refusing to supply food, arms, and critically, gunpowder to the Indians as the French had done, and he also discarded the French policy of treating Indians as allies in favor of a policy of treating them as subjects of the British Crown.” The Pontiac and the French were friends and even the French married some of the woman in the tribe. The British didn’t have the same feeling for the Indians and made it very hard for them to keep the peace. Chief Red Jacket a Native American hero he was called Sagoyewatha, this means “he keeps them awake. He was given this name Red Jacket by the British.
Red Jacket didn’t fear the white men; he got alone with them at first. He had taken them in as friends, they would call him brother. They believed they were friends and gave them food and land to live off of. The Indians helped the white men until the white men numbers had greatly increased, they wanted more land, and they wanted more country. Indians became uneasy and that is about when a war took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians; many of their own people were destroyed in this war. I think that both
Red Jacket didn’t fear the white men; he got alone with them at first. He had taken them in as friends, they would call him brother. They believed they were friends and gave them food and land to live off of. The Indians helped the white men until the white men numbers had greatly increased, they wanted more land, and they wanted more country. Indians became uneasy and that is about when a war took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians; many of their own people were destroyed in this war. I think that both
Cited: Pontiac “The Norton Anthology of American Literature.” 7th ed. Vol. A Ed. Nina Baym. New York: Norton, 2007. 438. Print. Red Jacket “The Norton Anthology of American Literature.” 7th ed. Vol. A Ed. Nina Baym. New York: Norton, 2007. 445. Print. Tecumseh “The Norton Anthology of American Literature.” 7th ed. Vol. A Ed.