Jacques Cartier and his exploration party discovered the abundance of fur product in the Indian territory, and spawned the fur trade with the French. ... The Huron agreed to cut the French into the fur trade for assistance in attacking the Iroquois. ... Unfortunately a critical problem arose among the French and the Huron. By 1638 there were many French missionaries present in Huron villages preaching Christianity. ... The greatest weapon, disease, passively affected a biological war on the Indians, which shattered their numbers. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book places the reader on the side of the Shawnee Indians in the time period just before the revolution up and up to the middle of the War of 1812. ... In 1774, Cornstalk knew that war with the whites would be inevitable. ... Edmunds did a wonderful job writing about the traditional way of Indian life and how trading with the early French and British traders changed the culture. ... Tecumseh had to have many meetings with the officials at the fort to assure them that the large number of Indians weren't there for war. ... The war had begun. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

All the Indians are killed except Magua, who gets away again. ... Therewith Heyward leads a repulse of the engaging French. ... In my opinion, Cooper didn't appear to be taking sides with the French or the English as well as with the "whites" and the "reds". ... Part IV: Ideas, Concepts, or Summary Propositions I feel that the following four events were very crucial to the conclusion of The Last of the Mohicans: the war between the French and English; the attack of the Hurons against the Munro girls, Gamut and Heywerd (on the journey to the fort); the English surrender to the ...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Indians had formerly lived a secluded life from the Europeans. ... There were not too many Indians at that time that a great use for Jesus and Christianity. ... This belief created war, violence, aggression, and attitudes of superiority in the hearts of the French Missionaries. ... All because of a group of French missionaries wanted to work for "greater glory of God," when in fact they were aiding in the destruction of an entire race of people. ... Overall, this movie was about Ethnocentrism and Colonialism and the problems that followed as a French missionary encountered a different lifestyl...

• Word Count: 1415
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• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning of the French and Indian war to the end of the Creek War, many white families had lost members to raids and battles on the frontier. ... Indian wars broke out between European settlers and Native-Americans. ... Two wars resulted from the refusal of some Indians to accept this policy. They were the Black Hawk War and the Seminole War. ... Other wars took place in the West, most ending in tragedy for the Indians. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Jefferson admired and lauded the American Indian. ... The only Indians he saw, as a boy, were "civilized". ... It was then contended, by France's Count Buffon, that all flora, fauna, and men of the New World were degenerate. ... In secret messages to his cabinet and Congress, Jefferson outlined a plan for removal of all Native Americans east of the Mississippi to make sure that this land would never fall to the French or the British. ... William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Me...

• Word Count: 2097
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They attended this mission not knowing what to expect, travel to new places, and face war with other tribes and other nations, traveling in the west. ... Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt t...

• Word Count: 1506
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School